Why Can’t We Focus Anymore?

Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 Education & Training

“Everything is designed to make us hooked and stay a little longer, or worse, distracted a little bit more.” We don’t always have what it takes to shut the noises in the background.

It is easy to think that being distracted is just the inability to focus, when in fact, it’s more complicated than that. As Seth Godin, the content God himself, said in one of his essays: “If you’re not paying, you and your attention are the products.”

We let ourselves getting sucked into an endless cycle of distraction while the gatekeepers are busy selling our attention to advertisers.

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https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/business-strategy/why-cant-we-focus-anymore-168798.aspx

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