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Johann Hari Unboxing | Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention

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Why You Need to Stop Pouring Fucking Itching Powder Over Me

I'm passionately in favor of these defensive measures. They're really good and they've significantly boosted my attention. But they'll only get you so far because at the moment, it's like someone is pouring itching powder over us all the time. We need to deal with the factors that are actually doing this to us. I own something called a case safe, right? It will lock your phone away for anything between five minutes and a whole day. When people want to come around for dinner, everyone's got to put their phone in the phone jail. And then you get the pleasure of focus, which is so much greater. There's a lot of things we go through lots of them.

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