Ep. 1144: Gloria Mark Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Gloria Mark, a Chancellor's Professor of Informatics at the University of California. She has been a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research since 2012. She was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2017 in recognition for her contribution in HCI. Her research interest is in understanding the impact of digital media on people's lives and she is best known for her work in studying people's multitasking, mood, behavior, and stress in real world environments.
The topic is her book Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Different perspectives; generations who straddled both pre and post-internet worlds
- Life options
- Technostress
- Multitasking
- Heart rate variability
- Optimizing attentional resources
- Social capital
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | I see it all the time. |
| 0:35.9 | Attention span is dwindling. |
| 0:39.3 | For many people, they literally don't have attention span. |
| 0:43.1 | They're zombies walking around, looking for the next piece of food to stuff in their mouth. |
| 0:51.2 | Modern society, no attention span. |
| 0:54.1 | This is it. We all know it. In fact, 47 seconds, that's about the |
| 0:59.5 | average time someone will stay focused on a screen before shifting their attention. Or, here's |
| 1:07.6 | another one. If you are doing something and you get interrupted, it can take |
| 1:12.5 | 25 minutes to get back to the same mindset that you were before you were interrupted. |
| 1:19.1 | But as you know with this podcast, there are people out there who have developed ways |
| 1:25.8 | around these modern problems that we all face. |
| 1:30.5 | I guess today is Gloria Mark from the University of California. |
| 1:34.9 | And she writes about finding our focus and fighting distraction in the modern age. |
| 1:41.4 | I don't care who you are. |
| 1:43.1 | We're all facing the same damn issue. |
| 1:45.8 | And the moment we can figure it out, |
| 1:48.1 | the moment life becomes a little more pleasant. |
| 1:52.5 | Without any further delay, |
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