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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
80,000 Hours Podcast
How to Improve Your AttentionSpan With Audio
I worry about things like Twitter and TikTok, where it just seems to be like obliterating our attention spans. With audio, I can go for a walk for four hours and just listen to four hours straight on some really technical topic. By by setting the reading pace of a book, I can force myself to focus on it because that's the only way that I can make sense of it. And actually, a nice thing about all of this audio stuff is that you can adjust the speed so that the ideas are coming at you just at the limit of your ability to process them comfortably.
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