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#226 — The Price of Distraction
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Do You Have a Top Down Source of Attention?
We often experience this degradation in our ability to sustain attention for the task at hand. We seek this dopamin hit by switching our attention to something else. And we're almost never very aware of the switching costs there. Just how much time is lost re orienting to the thing you are doing when you do come back. There's a cost for this, like you said, whether that cost is something apparent to you or not, it is there. It has been well documented, both nouragly and and behaviory.
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