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Key takeaways from Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

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“an attentional pathogenic culture” – an environment in which sustained and deep focus is harder for all of us

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