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Interrupted and distracted: Johann Hari wants you to regain your attention

Life Examined

CHAPTER

The Bio Psycho Social Model of Children's Attention Problems

For every one child who was identified with serious attention problems when i was seven years old, there's now a hundred children who've been identified with that problem. The idea it's a coincidence that we're seeing this explosion in children's attention problems at the same time as they're using technology specifically designed to hack and invade their attention is ridiculous. There are short terms, top gap solutions that i'm not opposed to, like giving children stimulant drugs. But it's not a medium to long term solution to all these factors to just drug more and more of our children with very powerful stimulants.

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