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Staff pick #6: What happened to our attention spans?

The Big Story

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The Big Story, Part One - Attention

Johann Hari is an author and journalist. His latest book is called Stolen Focus. Why you can't pay attention and how to think deeply again. The average office worker now focuses on any one task for only three minutes. For every one child who was identified with serious attention problems when he was seven years old, there's now a hundred children who've been identified with that problem.

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