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Your Attention Didn't Collapse. It Was Stolen.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

CHAPTER

What's Happening to Us Today?

The human brain has not changed significantly in for thousand years. It ain't going to change on any time scale you and me are ever going to see. You can only think about one thing at a time. The average tean ager to day believes they can follow seven forms of media at the same time. But most of us never get 23 minutes without interruptions. If we just sat down and just smoked a fat splif our, ic would go down by five points. So the effect of being chronically distracted in the short term is twice as bad than your ability to pay attention ouas in the longer term.

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