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#584 - Dr Gloria Mark - How To Take Control Of Your Attention

Modern Wisdom

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Are You Engaged but Not Challenged?

It turns out when people are engaged with something, but they're not challenged. We call this rote attention or rote activity. Turns out people are the happiest. They feel the most positive when they do this. Why? Because it's easy. Very often when you play these simple kinds of games, you get rewards. And so we tend to think of time.

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