
How to Avoid Distraction with Johann Hari
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The Human Brain Hasn't Changed Significantly in 40,000 Years.
The average teenager now believes they can follow six or seven forms of media at the same time. The human brain hasn't changed significantly in 40,000 years. It's not going to change on any time scale. If you want me sat together and smoked bliff right now, our IQs would go down in a short term by five points. Being chronically interrupted is twice as bad for your intelligence and attention as getting stoned doing one thing at a time. And it's worth thinking about because you, it's really interesting what you're saying about email. I didn't understand this until I researched it. We're going to see, you can only think about one or two things at
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