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Interrupted and distracted: Johann Hari wants you to regain your attention

Life Examined

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How to Protect Yourself From Interrupted Technology

Professor miller says we are living in what he calls a perfect storm of cognitive degradation as a result of being interrupted all the time. Being chronically distracted is twice as bad for your intelligence as being toned right now. There are lots of things we can do to defend ourselves, such as locking our phones away and using plastic 'jail' safes. But technology is only one of the 12 factors i write about in stolan focus,. but we gonot understand the technology we are using at the moment is specifically designed to interrupt us. It was fascinating to realize how uncomfortable they are with what they'd done.

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