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

Modern Wisdom

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Are We Changing Our Nature?

Half of our distractions are self-generated, but we've seen attention go from two and a half minutes to 75 seconds to 43 seconds over the last 20 years. So what it would suggest is if 50% of an increased number of distractions were coming from inside the house, that there is an interrelationship between changes in environment and internal state. And let me also point out that it's not just computers and phones where we see attention spans to be short; other media that we watch, things like TV and film have decreased over time.

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