Isaraski: We're surrounded by distractions, and yet they're invisible to us. The trigger was a cultural change that I went through in the U.S. He says we have access to more information and people faster than ever before. And so that just feeds into the natural curiosity of humans.
Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, started measuring the attention spans of office workers with scientific precision. What she has discovered is not simply an explosion of disruptive communications, but a pandemic of stress that has followed workers from their offices to their homes. She shares the latest findings from the “science of interruptions,” and how we can stop forfeiting our attention to the next notification, and the next one, ad nauseam.