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Podcast: The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast
Episode: 1KHO 644: The Current Crisis in Human Attention | Dr. Marc Berman, Nature and the Mind
Description: Our attention is quietly falling apart and it’s changing who we are as parents, partners, and people. In this powerful conversation, Dr. Marc Berman, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and a pioneer in environmental neuroscience, explains why our “directed attention” is at a breaking point in the age of constant pings, dings, and screens. Drawing from his groundbreaking research and his new book, Nature and the Mind, Dr. Berman gives us language we can use to understand why we’re so depleted and why a walk outside can feel like someone quietly handing us our life bac...