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Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?

Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?

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Prof Gloria Mark explains why she believes our powers of concentration are not beyond rescue, and reveals her top tips for finding focus

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In 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the
year was ‘brain rot’. The term relates to the supposedly negative
effects of consuming social media content, but it struck a chord
more widely with many who feel they don’t have the mental capacity
they once had. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the
University of California, Irvine, has been studying our waning
attention spans for 20 years. In this episode from January 2025,
she tells Madeleine Finlay why she believes our powers of
concentration are not beyond rescue, and reveals her top tips for
finding focus. Help support our independent journalism at
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