
#226 - The Price of Distraction
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Listening to a Podcast and Driving a Car
Driving is often very reflexive. And you're pulling in a lot of bottom up information from the environment, making reflexive decisions without your top down attention. That allows you to focus your attention on listening to the podcast and digesting it or understanding it. But then something happens on the road and something unexpected and something that demands your attention. The minute that changes, that's when the conflict and the interference occurs. It may not get there fast enough.
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