220. Is Your Attention Span Shrinking?
No Stupid Questions17 Marras 2024

220. Is Your Attention Span Shrinking?

Does a surplus of information create a shortage of attention? Are today’s young people really unable to focus? And do goldfish need better PR?

  • SOURCES:
    • Neil Bradbury, professor of physiology at Rosalind Franklin University.
    • Nicholas Carr, writer and journalist.
    • Johann Hari, writer and journalist.
    • Charles Howard, University Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity & Community at the University of Pennsylvania.
    • Felicity Huntingford, emeritus professor of functional ecology at the university of Glasgow.
    • Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
    • Rick Rubin, music producer and record executive.
    • Herbert Simon, professor of computer science and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.


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11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?

11. Are Ambitious People Inherently Selfish?

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10. Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics?

10. Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics?

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9. Why Is It So Hard to Be Alone With Our Thoughts?

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8. Wouldn’t It Be Better to Hear Your Eulogy Before You’re Dead?

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7. How Do You Handle Criticism?

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6. Is Incompetence a Form of Dishonesty?

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5. What Do Tom Sawyer and the Founder of Duolingo Have in Common?

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