Episode 427 - The Dr. Cloud Show - Managing Attention in a Distracted World
The Boundaries.me Podcast
Greg Bowler
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Henry Cloud explores the critical role of attention in achieving life goals. He breaks down how executive functions of the brain—including attending to what's relevant, inhibiting distractions, and maintaining working memory—affect our ability to accomplish tasks ranging from daily errands to relationship repair. Dr. Cloud discusses how modern technology constantly competes for our limited attention and offers practical strategies for maintaining focus on priorities. The episode transitions to examining the concept of "enough" in various aspects of life, questioning how to determine sufficiency in areas like relationships, purpose, and material possessions. In the call-in segment, Dr. Cloud addresses a listener processing multiple traumatic life events and another navigating boundaries with family members who resist change. Throughout, he emphasizes the importance of intentional choices about where we direct our attention and how we protect our boundaries.
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| 0:00.0 | Sick of being treated unfairly in relationships? |
| 0:03.7 | Discover key strategies from Dr. Henry Cloud on how to protect yourself from toxic people. |
| 0:08.8 | Go to www.boundaries.me slash free to get a free e-book that covers |
| 0:14.2 | What makes someone an unsafe person? |
| 0:16.9 | How to recognize and respond to gaslighting? |
| 0:19.5 | What to do with a narcissist? |
| 0:22.2 | How to say no? How to do with a narcissist, how to say no, |
| 0:29.1 | how to deal with people that play the victim, and much more, go to www.boundaries.me slash free to download the guide. |
| 0:41.2 | Hey guys, welcome back. |
| 0:42.6 | It's the Dr. Cloud Show. |
| 0:50.8 | The thought I wanted to start out with today is your attention. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, you hear a lot about this in the media media and you hear a lot about it on social media. Everybody knows there's lots and lots of problems with people keeping their attention |
| 1:04.6 | because we're getting blasted by stimuli all the time in so many different ways. |
| 1:14.8 | You get notifications on this and you start scrolling and then you lose attention and then the phone rings and then you've got all sorts of stuff going on. |
| 1:18.9 | And it is a big problem. |
| 1:20.8 | You know, we've got research showing that kids are getting affected by this |
| 1:24.7 | and adults are getting affected by this. |
| 1:27.6 | And it's a very technical problem when you look at it from a psychological perspective. |
| 1:35.9 | And that is that there is nothing probably that matters more in you're getting to where |
| 1:43.1 | you want to get in any area of life, whether it's going to the |
| 1:46.4 | grocery store or whether it's fixing a marriage or whether it's accomplishing a career goal |
| 1:52.5 | or getting a project done or making sure you get everything done in a day you need to get |
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