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ReThinking · 2025-07-29 · 37 min · 6,930 words

The truth about the attention crisis with historian Daniel Immerwahr

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Ts and Cs apply. You might not like the quality of the attention, you might not like the object of the attention, but now we're arguing about something different than like, do people have the cognitive capacity to pay attention? It just seems fairly obvious that we are living through an age of shortened attention spans when it comes to some things, but clearly lengthened ones when it comes to others. Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast with Ted on the science of what makes us tick.

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