Brain Food: Loyal to Distractions
the bouncer is besieged in an unprecedented way. In addition to switching tasks like never before, our brains are also being forced to filter more frantically than at any point in our past.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
We know that we are neither as active in choosing where we direct our attention, nor as passive in the process of seeing, as this account suggests.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
The first is that we currently eat a diet that causes regular energy spikes and energy crashes.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Nass was the principal author of a widely cited study that showed most media multitaskers to be worse than they thought at multitasking.
Anthony Weeks • Net Smart
In The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford called attention “the thing that is most one’s own” because what we pay attention to determines what is real to us, what is “actually present to our consciousness.” Just as we become what we eat, our reality becomes what we pay attention to. And just like our appetite has been hijacked by food enginee... See more
Many animals will focus on very complex—and, to them, meaningless—things, if you reward them right.