The Future of Attention

The Future of Attention

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The Future of Attention
The Future of Attention
The depths of meaning we can discover by focusing

The depths of meaning we can discover by focusing

How a simple experiment demonstrated our impatience

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Gloria Mark
Jul 26, 2024
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In the frenzied pace of modern life, our attention often gets caught up in incessant scrolling or watching fast-paced videos, leaving little time to observe the stillness around us. To explore our capacity to focus, The New York Times recently did a fascinating experiment inspired by a Harvard art history professor’s cl…

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