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#584 - Dr Gloria Mark - How To Take Control Of Your Attention
Modern Wisdom
The Battle for Our Attention
If 50% of the reason that we're distracted is self-generated, you still have an increased relative 20 years stat. The half of the number of times that we get distracted, it's less than 43 seconds. One of the things we find is that when people accumulate what's called sleep debt, sleep debt is the accumulation of lack of sleep night after night. As sleep debt increases attention spans decrease. They tend to do more lightweight activities, like Facebook, for example. But they won't go into challenge because they just don't have the mental resources available.
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