Tired? Distracted? Burned-Out? Listen to This.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. Your life, after all, is just the sum total of the things you’ve paid attention to. And we lament our attention issues all the time: how distracted we are, how drained we feel, how hard it is to stay focused or present. And yet, while there’s no shortage of advice on how to improve our sleep hygiene, or spending, or physical fitness, there’s hardly any good information about how to build and replenish our capacity for paying attention.
So for the start of the new year, I wanted to have a conversation with Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, author of the book “Attention Span (www.harpercollins.com/product...) ,” and one of the few people who’s deeply studied the way our attention works, how that’s been changing, and what we can do to stop frittering our attention budgets away.
Book recommendations:
“The Challenger Launch Decision (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...) ” by Diane Vaughan
“The Undoing Project (wwnorton.com/books/The-Undoin...) ” by Michael Lewis
“The God Equation (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...) ” by Michio Kaku
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My dad used to read a lot in the evenings. As I got older I voluntarily gave up TV for periods to emulate him. Respect.
I just loved this. It's about our daily lives - about how to deeply rest, how to balance our lives, how to be holistically healthy.
Thank you Ezra for having a scientist/researcher & a woman explain an important topic. Our emotional life is paramount.
I have been thinking about this a lot and noticing it in myself. I can almost trace it back to the transition from cell phone to a smart phone. When I was an English teacher, I was chronically overworked. The situation became intolerable when we added parent emails and portals in lieu of parent conferences at 10 week intervals. If it was an imminent problem, a phone call was also better. Your guest speaker is right. We all need to turn off and reset.
Very reassuring that the challenges most people feel are only human. A great discussion about a pervasive problem that’s become normalised. The constructive advice is timely for a new year which will likely be full of head-spinning developments in IT. Thank you Ezra.
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absolutely
I was the last person in my circle of acquaintances to get an email account (back in the day 😂). It was the same with a mobile phone. I have ADD & have always struggled with keeping up with communication. I dreaded the instant, 24/7 reach that everyone was bragging about. And I was right. I am an overachiever & tech has added an extra depth of hell to my existence. Now that I am retired - I have ditched much of it. Paper planner for starters & NO-ONE gets an immediate pick-up except immediate family. I block & unsubscribe like maniac. I do bills & emails once a week (usually 😂). And I am again in love with pens, pencils, & paper. My circle of friends has whittled down immensely, just as I like it. I can’t avoid tech entirely, but it is not the center of my life. I rarely sit at the computer anymore. I wish the same escape for everyone who needs it.
I absolutely love Ezra Klein!
Tired? Watch your food!
Thank you for this conversation and work! I can related to a lot of the behaviors your talk about, Ezra. I want to add a couple of points. 1: I am curious how my short attention span and freq checking of emails might be r/t a sort of limited socialization attempt? I work a lot on my own and wonder if that might be part of why. 2. With respect to your discussion on interruptions, this 10+ year old youtube shows how dangerous interruptions can be: th-cam.com/video/PGK9_CkhRNw/w-d-xo.html
I feel like this was a therapy session for Ezra lol
Is it just me or is Gloria Mark have difficulty breathing. She sounds like she is anxious or she have some insufficient lung capacity.
Sleep smile drink eat... sleep smile drink eat...rinse repeat no thought needed
Haha lol "doctor it hurts when I do this" doctor "don't do that"