Every 47 seconds we switch our attention. People are surprised when they hear the figure, but it has happened so gradually over the last few decades of using our devices. One of the main things I do is I've learned to probe myself to better understand my actions. A lot of what we do is unconscious. You see your phone, you grab it without thinking. That's an automatic action. When they become conscious for me, then I can be intentional toward that. If I have an urge that I want to check news and I'm a news junkie, I love to. It's usually because I'm bored with my task or I'm procrastinating. But I identify that and
Everyone is distracted by technology, and all of us have experienced this sense that our level of distraction is increasing. Even the speed with which we move from website to website, from app to app seems to be increasing in pace. And there's lots of people out there willing to talk about what we should do and how we can improve. But very few of those people have the data to help us think through this problem and what to do about it with precision. That's why I've invited Dr. Gloria Mark onto the podcast today. Dr. Mark has spent 30 years studying attention and the relationship between humans and technology. She's published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, so the difference when she speaks, even when she says things that sound like you've heard them before, is that she has a detail and a data-driven perspective behind what is being said. In other words, she's more credible, she's more accurate, and it really is a pleasure to have her. By the end of this episode, you'll be able to establish and protect your peak attention windows of opportunity.
Learn more from Dr. Mark here: https://gloriamark.com/
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