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#226 — The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Distracted Mind

i think the covid demic that we're experiencing now is showing a lot of the fragmentation in our minds and the stressers caused by technology. And it really comes down to information. You point out in your book that we are information seeking creatures. But there's a breaking point, and there's all sorts of consequences. We don't have unlimited capacity to process information. If the system is overloaded due to all sorts of types of interference,. there will be consequences.

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