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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
The Best People on the Planet Are Not the Ones That Can Forage for Information
In the space of ten years we went from wanting more to needing to filter less. The smartest people on the planet are not the ones that can forage for information, they're the ones that sort signal from noise. We might be now living in what he calls an attentional pathogenic environment. And i really do hope that we can try and make a better attentional environment.
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