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Gloria Mark - How to Find Focus, Fight Distraction, and Get More Done

Smart People Podcast

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Technology Has Had a Massive Impact on Attention, Focus, Productivity

Technology has had a massive impact on our entire experience around attention, focus and productivity. There are individual differences that interact with technology such as conscientious people checking their email more than others. The design of the internet itself maps on very well to the theory of human semantic memory. We trade in what's called social capital, which means we do favors for each other. Our identity is tied up with technology.

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