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When did you last notice the weather?
When did you last notice the weather – not check it on an app, but actually notice it?The quality of light. The direction of the wind. Whether the air smelled different. Most people cannot answer. Not because they are unobservant, but because they have outsourced their senses to a screen.Mr Murugan and Ms Fong on attention as a cognitive skill – one you were born with, and one that atrophies without use.IN THIS EPISODE
Attention Restoration Theory — Stephen and Rachel Kaplan's decades of work at the University of Michigan
Why directed attention (screens, decisions, deadlines) is a finite…
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