Making Sense with Sam Harris — #226 — The Price of Distraction

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#226 — The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris speaks with Adam Gazzaley about the way our technology is changing us. They discuss our limited ability to process information, our failures of multitasking, "top-down" vs "bottom-up" attention, self-interruptions and switching costs, anxiety, boredom, "digital medicine," neuroplasticity, video games for…

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