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How digital stimulation fragments cultivated attention

I can be completely present during my morning meditation but the moment I check my phone all that centeredness disappears and I feel scattered for hours.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system struggles to maintain coherent states when repeatedly jolted between vastly different attentional demands.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Attention and focus — the science?”

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