Attention Spans – Gloria Mark
Freedom Matters
Are You Engaged or Unengaged?
Gloria Steinem: People have always regarded attention as two states. You're focused or unfocused, she says. But when people are very challenged and very engaged, we call that a state of focus. When people are not at all challenged and not at all engaged, that's boredom. And then, of course, people are also bored. She explains how these four different intentional states can be mapped to one another.
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