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#226 - The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Cost of Self Interrupting

We're constantly fragmenting our limited, you know, attentional focus with both external and internal distractions. And so we're almost never very aware of the switching costs there,. Just how much time is lost reorienting to the thing you were doing when you do come back. There's a cost for this, like you said, whether that cost is something apparent to you or not, it is there.

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