Is Social Media Really a Threata, a Hundred %?

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Social media companies are able to allow people to sit and doom scroll for hours on end without any knowledge. This can lead to unfortunate consequences like psychological health problems, serious psychological health problems in many what? What can we do? Well, ok, if i think abouthat might what my kids have done as me kond of interested, their fifteend and nine. My daughter has a timer that times her out when she needs to go to youtube to watch som video. But it's helping her, but it's a very externally driven approach. She's not putting any of the control back in her own - at this age you need to make it work.

Research shows we are missing 50 percent of our lives because we aren’t paying attention. Many of us often feel mentally foggy, scattered, and overwhelmed. Why is it that no matter how hard you try, you seem to find yourself somewhere else — if you’re even aware you’ve drifted off to that place.

In this conversation with the acclaimed neuroscientist Amishi Jha, she recounts what her neuroscience research revealed, and shows why whether you’re simply browsing, talking to friends, or trying to stay focused in an important meeting, you can’t seem to manage to hang on to your attention.

Shermer and Jha discuss: the neuroscience of attention; what attention evolved to do; how stress, attention bias, negativity bias, thought flooding, and active listening affect attention; multitasking; the “flashlight” metaphor; mindfulness and well-being, and more…