Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention
The Imperfects
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The Importance of Focus and Attention
There's scientific evidence for 12 factors that can make your attention better or worse. They include some aspects of things that are happening in our tech at the moment, but they also go way beyond them from the food we eat to the air we breathe. So if you're struggling to pay attention, it's not your fault. You're not imagining it. This is happening to almost all of us. And your attention didn't collapse. Your attention has been stolen from you. The main lesson with this thing is get stoned and be clear - neither being interrupted nor getting stoned would improve anything.
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