Distraction isn’t about the smartphone. It’s about us.
Learned distraction can be unlearned
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We like to blame our smartphones for our distractions. The beeping notifications, the text chimes--we feel that just the sight of it pulls us away from the task at hand. But a new study suggests the real problem may not be the device itself, but something more unsettling—something that resides within us.
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