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Ep. 120: LISTENER CALLS: Students' Diminishing Focus

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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I Am Leaving. I Am a Teacher for Younger Children.

I am a teacher for younger children. And between two and a half and 12 years old, i see loss of focus by more and more children. One of the thing that seems clear from my work on these topics is that focus is a practised skill. It's not thing that just comes natural to us that we just need to be reminded to do more often. Sometimes a focus doesn't our brains are very good at maintaining unbroken concentration on a salient stimuli. Rigt it. I am leaving.

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