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Podcast: A New Way of Being
Episode: REWIND: Why you can't focus: Johann Hari
Description: So many of us are struggling to focus and pay attention to what we need to. It can feel like a moral failing – as if there is something wrong with us individually. But Johann Hari argues that is not the case. The problem runs much deeper.Teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds he says, while office workers aren’t much better – managing only three minutes.It won’t surprise you to hear that digital has a significant role to play – after all, how many people don’t have a somewhat dysfunctional relationship with their p...