Johann Hari: Reclaiming Our Stolen Focus
A Life of Greatness
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Are You Constantly Interrupted?
Being chronically distracted is twice as bad for your intelligence as getting stoned. You'd be better off sitting at your desk, smoking a fat spliff and doing one thing at a time than being constantly interrupted in the way many of us are. This is why profes miller said to me, we are living in a perfect storm of cognitive degradation - it's like someone is pouring acid into our heads all the time. So there are all sorts of things we can do as individuals to protect ourselves and our children. And theye really important. I'm passionately in favour of them. But they will only get you so far. We've got to also have a level of offence where we
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