Today on audible I am listening to* Stolen Focus by Johann Hari * read by Johann Hari.
irl I listen to, watch or read the video/movie/documentary or book 3 times if I want it to stick.
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
the main one is trust your gut, you know when you are doing something you shouldn’t and you know what to do
of course , that doesn’t make it easy
I know I’m really weak, that’s why I have close to zero apps on my phone, I don’t use phone banking nor do I use any email. No shopping apps, no myki, no reddit and i’m not on any other social media, I don’t look at news, nothin’ . If I go out away from my lap top I’m away from all the computer stuff. I’m using my phone even less now that I got myself a lovely new watch.
My focus is still not great but that’s a ptsd thing and a loss of practice thing.
Today on audible I am listening to* Stolen Focus by Johann Hari * read by Johann Hari.
irl I listen to, watch or read the video/movie/documentary or book 3 times if I want it to stick.
That looks interesting! I have the attention span of a goldfish these days, which is hugely frustrating. Does it offer some solutions?
it offers a million solutions 😊
the main one is trust your gut, you know when you are doing something you shouldn’t and you know what to do
of course , that doesn’t make it easy
I know I’m really weak, that’s why I have close to zero apps on my phone, I don’t use phone banking nor do I use any email. No shopping apps, no myki, no reddit and i’m not on any other social media, I don’t look at news, nothin’ . If I go out away from my lap top I’m away from all the computer stuff. I’m using my phone even less now that I got myself a lovely new watch.
My focus is still not great but that’s a ptsd thing and a loss of practice thing.