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Modern life insists that we perform all sorts of hyper-focused tasks that overburdens our distractible brains.
Consider driving and drinking coffee while you're on the phone. It means that you're continually switching attention that could cause an accident.
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The brain is distractible. We focus in bursts with periods of distractibility in between those bursts, where the brain seems to look at the rest of the environment outside to see if there's something important going on elsewhere.
This rhythm affects our behavior all the ti...
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According to scientists at Princeton University, the brain oscillates in and out of focus four times every second.
That means the brain stops focusing on the task at hand about 240 times a minute.
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At any given moment, our brain focuses on a single point of interest. Like a filmstrip, the brain takes pictures of these moments, then assembles them into a cohesive story.
About four times every second, the brain stops taking snapshots of individual points of focus and collects backg...
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Every four times a second, our brains are open to stimuli outside our initial focus.
If there's something very bright or blinking at that time, you will shift your attention. Advertisers take advantage of this. For example, when you're on the internet and ads are popping u...
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