The Thing About Attention Is Singular

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Our capacity to focus is singular in some sense. So if you are enjoin the vista, which i hope you were on, a nice spy,. cried morse, the input from my words er, the words being spoken in your ear from the audio book, ar be diminished. Youe got it, i say. I'm prompting you to remind yourself to look into your own mind to see where it's been the last few minutes. But l that wold be all te aver once to that would be an example of your meda awareness, right? That this you're kind of reminding me, pay attention. Oh, yes. To pay attention. And did it make sense

Research shows we are missing 50 percent of our lives because we aren’t paying attention. Many of us often feel mentally foggy, scattered, and overwhelmed. Why is it that no matter how hard you try, you seem to find yourself somewhere else — if you’re even aware you’ve drifted off to that place.

In this conversation with the acclaimed neuroscientist Amishi Jha, she recounts what her neuroscience research revealed, and shows why whether you’re simply browsing, talking to friends, or trying to stay focused in an important meeting, you can’t seem to manage to hang on to your attention.

Shermer and Jha discuss: the neuroscience of attention; what attention evolved to do; how stress, attention bias, negativity bias, thought flooding, and active listening affect attention; multitasking; the “flashlight” metaphor; mindfulness and well-being, and more…