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Pay Attention in a Distracted World: Christian Madsbjerg

Paying attention is a crucial human skill, yet many of us have forgotten how to listen carefully and observe intentionally. Deluged by social media and hobbled by the increasing social isolation it…

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL 28 Oct 2023 13 min read

Culture, Society, Sports & Arts

Johann Hari on the Global Attention Crisis

Our attention is collapsing. In the US, college students are only able to focus on a task for 65 seconds…. And office workers can manage just 3 minutes. Our inability to focus…

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL 23 Apr 2022 11 min read

Business & Economics

How Technology Stole Our Minds

To learn more about how technology has stolen our attention; and what we can do to get it back, I spoke to James Williams (Writer & researcher on the philosophy and ethics…

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL 23 Sep 2018 20 min read