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Podcast: Authentic Parenting
Episode: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again with Johann Hari
Description: Have you noticed that your ability to pay attention is collapsing? Did you know that in the US teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time and office workers average only three minutes? Like so many of us Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He went on a quest to find out what was happening to our attention and he wrote a phenomenal book called Stolen Focus. He argues in the book that...