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

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Is There Only These 12 Causes for Stalin Focus?

The average American teenager now believes they can follow six or seven forms of media at the same time. Scientists get people into labs, not just teenagers, older people as well, and they get them to think they're doing more than one thing at a time. The group that had not been interrupted scored 10 IQ points higher on an intelligence test than the group that had been interrupted. If you and me sat down and smoked a fast lift together now, Jay, our IQs would go down by five points.

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