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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
What Is Attention and How Does It Work?
There's many layers of attention. If you disturb yourself physically, to use one example, by eating foods that cause energy spikes and energy crashes, e that's going to fok your attention physical process. We are not just being disrupted at the level of the spot light, which is what we think about but our ability to achieve longer term goals is being profoundly disrupted. How do you know who you are if you never get time to think and contemplate away from being constantly disrupted? And an anfuced with right? I would argue there should be a fourth layer which i would call our stadium - this is how we see each other as therto society,. There's all sorts of crises facing
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