4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Got the attention span of a small fish? So does Stevie. Thankfully Tessa has done some proper research to help her (and you) focus for longer than 8 seconds. Spoiler: it may or may not involve snacks.
Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive Productions.
Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to nobody panic how focused are you feeling today get involved everyone get |
0:16.6 | focus get ready to concentrate concentrate today's episode I'm Stevie |
0:22.0 | probably say that I'm Tesla there's no time for that. |
0:24.0 | So there's no time. Focus. How to concentrate. |
0:28.0 | I'm excited for this one. It was, this one is dedicated to and requested by Fiona and Dan. |
0:34.8 | They came to a comedy night and then came to say hello. |
0:38.0 | Was it dog park? |
0:39.0 | Yeah, they came to dog park. |
0:40.0 | How is dog park going? |
0:41.0 | So fun. |
0:42.0 | So, so silly. Great keep an eye on tests in Twitter page for more dog park |
0:46.8 | I announce it one day before it happens so you've really got to be on your toes |
0:50.4 | Very fast. Yeah, it's a what it's a monthly new material night that's just started and it's real nice. |
0:56.8 | But the exciting thing is the one this weekend, Fiona and Dan came, came to say hello. |
1:01.8 | And I said, do you want to request an episode and quick as a whip |
1:04.3 | for the owner said I'd like how to concentrate. Yeah I think our attention spans are |
1:09.2 | absolutely screwed for lots and lots of reasons well Well apparently our attention span, the human |
1:14.3 | attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 which is around the time smart bones |
1:19.5 | hit the scene. Oh my god of course to 8 seconds today and in comparison scientists believe that the |
1:25.7 | goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds so we have fallen below |
1:29.5 | goldfish levels of focus and concentration. It is unbelievable, but also, at the same time, |
1:33.6 | it's so believable because of the amount of information |
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