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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
Is Your Godson a Tick Tocker?
If you lose your ability to pay attention, you cannot achieve those goals. A society of people who addled and can't pay attention won't be able to achieve collective goals either. There's loads of evidence that the way we eat a the kind of standard western diet has a catastrophic effect on s ability to focus and pay attention. We sleep 20 % less than we did a hundred years ago - even if nothing else had changed,. That alone would be causing a huge crisis in children's attention. I think it is possible for small children to get still when they are eight or nine hours old; all the scientific evidence shows children can run around and exercise as their attention grows. See, these
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