Our attention span is being robbed

Your attention span is being robbed! – Unstructed.tech.
This is exactly why you can’t focus on reading anything longer than a mobile page length these days. Not even a blog post, let alone a book! Your attention span is being robbed! You are being robbed of the ability to acquire useful info. You are being ROBBED of the experience of learning stuff! Sounds […]

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I prefer physical books than ebooks on my iPad. Before, I get distracted when there is a notification when I read an ebook. Physical books helps me to concentrate better.

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Too much distraction now compared to a decade (or two) ago… :frowning:

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Absolutely.

This explains the trend of “no disturb” applications, like “Forest”.

To fight that, I use the Pomodoro technique, with a 12h brown noise soundtrack during focus session.

So do I, now I switch between Kindle and paper. No need for a connection.

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What I do on my iPad is just put it in airplane mode - not only does that stop notifications and web related distractions, but cuts down on EMF… which is a must if you read lying down with your device leaning on or anywhere near your stomach :upside_down_face: