The attention span epidemic: why you're so impatient now!

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AsapSCIENCE

Science, Biology, Comedy, Youtuber, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Brain rot is real - and it is likely from us all scrolling our phones. Scrolling our phones leads to a change in our brain that can lead to impatience. Today we talk about the up to date science on attention span, phone use, impatience - and the best ways for us to get our attention spans back. And question - does everyone have ADHD?

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0:00.0	controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make sense.
0:06.4	Today we are talking about impatience and attention spam. We're going to be talking about what the
0:11.2	internet and social media is doing to your brain, both from a cognitive perspective, but also
0:15.6	physically how it's changing your brain, and the science around impatience. Like are people
0:19.6	becoming less patient?
0:21.5	What's going on in society?
0:23.4	We need to talk about it.
0:26.5	There's a lot to go through today.
0:28.1	I thought to start off one really interesting thing to mention was the Oxford Word of the
0:33.6	year for 2024 was, did you just look it on my screen?
0:37.2	I was going to get you to guess.
0:38.0	No, but you hate when I look at your screen. It's so funny. The word was,
0:42.1	Brad. Yeah, close. Brain rot. Oh. So I'm sure most of you've heard that phrase. It's a very
0:49.7	like gen alpha and gen Z phrase. Wait, Gen Alpha.
0:54.8	What's that?
0:55.2	Like even younger.
0:56.5	Like kids who are aware that they're like doing something that's like rotting
0:59.7	in their brain, which would be like scrolling social media and just like aimless things.
1:03.5	Wait, Jen Alpha knows that.
1:05.2	How old's gen Alpha?
1:06.1	I don't know which one Alpha is, but everyone says skibbitty toilet.
1:09.5	That one.
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