How to Improve Your Attention Span
Nobody Panic
Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to focus? Got distracted three times even while reading that three-word sentence? Stevie and Tessa work out how to improve their attention spans with expert advice from the world of neuroscience so they can concentrate a bit better. Unsurprisingly phones and social media aren’t helpful but, surprisingly, they discover a simple breathing trick you can try when your mind wanders that actually works.
That book recommendation: ‘The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World’
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello, welcome to nobody panic. Don't panic. We're here, certainly here. Have we got anything useful to say? Who's to say? No. But we're certainly |
| 0:27.8 | here and that's the main thing. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Stevie Martin. |
| 0:34.0 | My name is Tessa Coates. |
| 0:36.0 | Our credentials are nil, nothing. |
| 0:40.0 | Alive humans. |
| 0:41.0 | Enthusiastic and keen, keen. |
| 0:44.8 | That's it. |
| 0:45.8 | Very keen. |
| 0:46.6 | Each week we take a suggestion or we sort of come up with a how-to, |
| 0:51.7 | that then we look around and just look around and then we have a little |
| 0:56.8 | look around ourselves and we report our findings back to each other and to you. |
| 1:00.9 | Yes so we sort of learning as we go and this was a episode suggestion from |
| 1:06.8 | Hannah who messaged basically saying my issue is I spent a lot of the pandemic |
| 1:12.4 | unemployed so sorry, Hannah, and just going to jump in finance in November. |
| 1:16.6 | Well done, Hannah. But after all that time, sitting around doing next to nothing, I think my brain has died a little and I'm finding it really hard to stay focused and motivated while working. |
| 1:25.3 | I just can't seem to keep my brain from wandering to other things when I'm trying to concentrate on a task. |
| 1:30.5 | I agree with you Hannah. I can't do anything for more than maybe 10 seconds and then I find that I've just made a |
| 1:36.7 | sandwich again that's the whole experience of my day the other day I made at lunch, started doing some work and then was like, oh, I haven't |
| 1:46.0 | eaten lunch and then I made lunch and at lunch again before I'd realize I'd already eaten lunch. |
| 1:49.9 | Yeah, it's nothing worse is then thinking, oh, I'll make London, I've been like, I've had it. |
| 1:55.0 | I've done it. |
| 1:56.0 | I've done that. |
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