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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Trickle Down Effect With Task Switching?
The problem is that there's a trickle down effect, right? That if you fracture and fragment the spotlight, that means that you don't ever make progress towards your meaning for long term goals. The cohesive narrative that you make around who am i, what are my values? Why am i here? That begins to get fractured and fragmented so much. And then overtime, as you spread that out across a bunch of s that cohese together to make themselves into a society, they don't get to do it. There's a line in ah, it's either digital minimalism or deep work, where kal newport says, he's talking about twitters specifically, and he says
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