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Moving Your Mind From Wandering Mess To Laser Focused By Regulating Attention | Flow Research Collective Radio

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The Role of Social Media in Attention Regulation

The attention system that we have was developed over the course of human evolution to do a lot of really useful things that privileged our survival. The notion of an intrinsic distractibility is also built into the way the brain functions. So it's both the capacity to select willfully like we were talking about, whether it's based on content or time or goals. But to also have this variability in where attention stays is very useful as sort of the noise around the signal, if you will.

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