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What It Takes to Reclaim Your Attention Span

What It Takes to Reclaim Your Attention Span

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Of all the potential effects of using smartphones, the one that
seems to inspire the most anxiety is what scrolling could be doing
to people’s attention. On social media (ironically), many people
express a desire to “heal” their attention spans from the damage
they feel technology has done. They’re picking up on something
real. In one 2025 study, researchers found that blocking the
internet on people’s phones for two weeks led to improvements in
sustained attention equivalent to reversing 10 years of cognitive
decline. In this final episode of How to Touch Grass, host Julie
Beck embarks on an experiment to see if she can heal her own
attention span. Beck and co-host Natalie Brennan also hear from
Jenny Odell, the author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, about
how Odell’s antagonism for her phone actually helped her make peace
with it, and how nature can teach us to pay deeper attention
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