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Are we too busy to pay attention to life?

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

CHAPTER

Is It Just a Couple of Hours Is Just So Much?

We can't go through a whole day being engaged with our phones the way we used to, says Liok. The average person's brain is just doing very different things now than it would have been when they were working on farms or in hunter gatherer days. People are ale very unwilling now to dare to be different and turn off their social media tools for longer periods of time. But if you're truly disconnected from those things, there's a homeostatic response as your network has some homeostasis.

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