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122 - Improve Your Attention Span in a Distracted World with Psychology Professor Amishi Jha

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Is Your Attention Span Getting Worse?

As a kid, i used to make fun of my mam for forgetting where we parked the car. My mind is often distracted like that, absolutely. At some level, the brain has always been distractable. And it isn't the case that our actual capacity to pay attention is shifted all that much. We just have more lures that hijack our attention away.

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