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Why we can't pay attention anymore
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Are We Losing Focus?
The title of your book is stolen focus. So the implication is that something has been done to us, which is not the same thing as saying we've lost something or given something away. Some of itis deliberate and organized, some of it is an unintentional effect of bigger changes a so id argue that those two factors together are responsible for our attentional problems. Let's think about our food supply. There's this really interesting new movement called nutritionar psychiatry that looks at how what we eat hugely affects our mental functioning. And there's currently scientific evidence for three ways in which the food we eat is profoundly damaging our focus and attention. We live on a kind of roller coaster of energy spikes
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