Are We Losing Our Attention?

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Sally Kohn: We are, our attention is being mined and sold. And we have to get smart about because the kind of exhaustion and challenges we're facing, they're not going to go away. What i meant when i said that our brains are ly working fine is just that they're working in a manner that allows large corporations to mine our attention. It's all about what our mind does, right? That's the first thing to say. Yes, it's tied to our mind. But there's another aspect of which is that he can get yanked around so let ourselves put ourselves back on a path where we're walking with flashlight pointed to where we want to go.

Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis and postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University.

Dr. Jha's newest book is available now: Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day.