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The common foods that are messing with your ability to focus — even if the rest of your diet is healthy

Here’s something to chew on. Brains require nutrients from a variety of f…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #attentionspan #BalancedDiet #Cognitivefunction #dementia #foodsthatarehighinfat #healthyfats #Mediterranean #popularfoods #UPFs
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2640003/the-common-foods-that-are-messing-with-your-ability-to-focus-even-if-the-rest-of-your-diet-is-healthy/

The common foods that are messing with your ability to focus — even if the rest of your diet is healthy https://www.diningandcooking.com/2640003/the-common-foods-that-are-messing-with-your-ability-to-focus-even-if-the-rest-of-your-diet-is-healthy/ #AttentionSpan #BalancedDiet #CognitiveFunction #dementia #FoodsThatAreHighInFat #HealthyFats #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #PopularFoods #UPFs

This Sneaky Food Could Be the Cause of Your Brain Fog

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#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #attentionspan #BarbaraCardoso #CliffordSegil #KeriGans #Mediterranean #MonashUniversity #ProvidenceSaintJohn’sHealthCenter #studyauthor
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2626259/this-sneaky-food-could-be-the-cause-of-your-brain-fog/

This Sneaky Food Could Be the Cause of Your Brain Fog https://www.diningandcooking.com/2626259/this-sneaky-food-could-be-the-cause-of-your-brain-fog/ #AttentionSpan #BarbaraCardoso #CliffordSegil #KeriGans #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MonashUniversity #ProvidenceSaintJohn’sHealthCenter #StudyAuthor

🎩✨ Ah, the complex machine that is this article—proclaiming the genius of a semi-obscure Soviet hero while simultaneously lauding the #transistors that power our TikTok addiction. 🤔🤖 Never mind, dear reader, that the piece takes longer to read than the average person's attention span can endure in our digital age. 📱📉
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/ #SovietHero #DigitalAge #AttentionSpan #TikTokCulture #HackerNews #ngated

🎤🚀 Afrika Bambaataa, the 'almighty' hip-hop #pioneer, has left the building at 68. 🙄 #BBC had to remind us 12 times it's the #news, in case we forgot where we were. 📺👉 #RIP, Bambaataa, but also RIP to our attention span navigating BBC's infinite menus. 🤦‍♂️🔍
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2evppm30p7o #AfrikaBambaataa #HipHop #AttentionSpan #HackerNews #ngated

🔧🤖 Behold, the "Context Gateway" – because clearly, AI agents are drowning in their own #verbosity without a superhero cape of "history compaction." 🚀 If only compressing my attention span while reading this was as easy! 📉📚
https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway #ContextGateway #AIagents #historyCompaction #attentionSpan #readability #HackerNews #ngated

I've noticed that whenever I post anything over 100 words, up to half a dozen followers go away (though if boosts occur, then departures and arrivals mostly cancel out). My choice of topic doesn't even make a difference.

Still, I try to write at least 100 words per post semi-regularly, to help me avoid becoming a lazy or superficial communicator. Accordingly, I now declare that I'm developing a new post that'll greatly exceed 100 words.

If that distresses—up to half a dozen of—you, then feel free to leave at this time.

Just want to warn you.

#AttentionSpan

STATE / MINUS 9 / POSITIVE NOISE / ATTENTION SPAN

https://grpunkflyers.notopia.dev/flyers/1573/

Our Phones Are Wrecking Our Attention Span; Here’s What to Do About It – ELLE Canada Magazine – Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Trends & Celebrity News

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Our Phones Are Wrecking Our Attention Span; Here’s What to Do About It

Anna Lembke, addiction expert and author of Dopamine Nation, calls smartphones “modern-day hypodermic needles,” as they deliver digital dopamine 24-7 and make users vulnerable to compulsive use. Is a “dopamine detox” the key to breaking the habit?

by : Jennifer Berry– Jan 6th, 2026

I sit down to respond to emails on my laptop. I make it through two messages before I grab my iPhone and open TikTok. I scroll through videos for five minutes (or was it 10?), send a particularly funny video skewering the faux urgency of corporate America to the group chat and put my phone away. Back to emails. A few minutes later, my phone is mysteriously in my hand again, and I’m seeing what’s happening on Instagram. Boring. I check text messages and respond to one. Ooooohhh, has the Ssense sale started yet? I stop myself. What was I supposed to be doing again?

Flashes of TikTok videos about adult women with ADHD are running through my head like a film reel when I remember an ad I was recently served for a habit-building app that promises to cure “dopamine addiction,” among other things. Am I a dopamine addict with a latent attention disorder? Or just the average chronically online (elder) millennial who’s glued to their phone for work and entertainment?

Harvard Medical School defines dopamine as a neuro-transmitter that helps us feel pleasure as part of the brain’s reward system. You know that flutter of good vibes you feel when clicking “purchase” in your favourite shopping app or after you’ve had a good old-fashioned roll in the hay? That’s a release of dopamine, or a “dopamine rush.”

While one can’t technically be addicted to dopamine itself, the role dopamine plays in addiction is very real, says Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic and author of the book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. “Dopamine is the ‘go’ signal,” she explains—the one that tells our brains we should keep doing a particular behaviour. And over time, our brains get accustomed to high dopamine levels, which means we require more intense stimuli to feel the same amount of pleasure. “This leads to tolerance, where now we need more reinforcing substances and behaviours to feel any kind of interest or salience or pleasure at all,” says Lembke. “And when we’re not using, we’re in withdrawal.” This explains why scrolling sessions can get longer and longer—the behaviour needs to escalate to generate the same rush.

Lembke studies all forms of addiction, from drugs and sex to online gambling and digital devices. She’s one of many authors and academics, like The Anxious Generation’s Jonathan Haidt, who caution against our reliance on screens and algorithms and the quick, cheap hits of dopamine they’re laced with.

When I ask Lembke if my habitual phone-grabbing could be an addiction, she doesn’t attempt to diagnose me in a 30-minute interview but says that her threshold for a smartphone addiction would be much higher than what I’d described. (Phew.) “There’s problematic or risky behaviour that I would say most of us fall prey to, even if we’re not meeting the criteria for addiction,” she says. That doesn’t mean treating the device like an appendage is without consequences—like frying your attention span, which it seems to be doing to me.

“These devices have, in a sense, trained our minds to interrupt ourselves, thereby preventing the deep concentration and gratifying flow state—which are in themselves sources of healthy dopamine—we could get into if we weren’t intermittently distracted by these devices.”

“The fracturing of our attention [span] is something that is resulting from our use of these devices,” Lembke confirms. “They’re very engaging. So for our reward pathways, [using them is] soothing and frictionless. It’s not effortful, and it’s an instant feel-good. As a result, we’re not building up the kinds of mental calluses we need to tolerate frustration, to wait for answers, to be uncertain, to tolerate ambiguity.

“When it comes to what you described, that’s a great example of how these devices have, in a sense, trained our minds to interrupt ourselves, thereby preventing the deep concentration and gratifying flow state—which are in themselves sources of healthy dopamine—we could get into if we weren’t intermittently distracted by these devices.”

Lembke suggests that perhaps I’m reaching for my phone (and a quick hit of instant gratification) when I’m encountering something slightly uncomfortable in my work. “If you reflect on distraction and consumption, what you’ll probably observe is that the moments when you reflexively grab your phone are moments when you’ve encountered a little bit of a roadblock in the work you’re doing—a moment when you’re not exactly sure what the next step is.” This is the crux of digital addiction: We don’t want to feel discomfort for even a moment (and that uneasiness could be boredom, tension with a co-worker or household chores you need to tackle), so we keep reaching for the thing that offers a temporary respite.

Lembke says that we have to train ourselves to accept certain levels of pain in order to feel pleasure. In the case of my constant self-interruptions, that pleasure would be the satisfaction of getting into a focused state. “The best way to deepen your work is to actually pause there and let yourself just sit in those eddying waters for a while,” she says. “Eventually, your mind will produce what the next step should be.” In regularly reaching for my emotional-support device, I’m not letting myself get into deep, challenging work. And I’m also not reaping the bigger reward that comes from doing hard things.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Our Phones Are Wrecking Our Attention Span; Here’s What to Do About It | ELLE Canada Magazine | Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Trends & Celebrity News

I’m going live with another nature meditation in about 20 minutes. Today the session is about our declining attention span and how to improve it. -
https://youtu.be/Oh93OPhqCHo?si=m5WbYtu9K4MPKDpN

#NatureMeditation #AttentionSpan #Mindfulness #LiveSession #Focus #MentalHealth #WellnessJourney #MeditateWithMe #StressRelief #LiveNow #TMGcommunity

Struggling to focus in this digital world? You’re not alone. Research shows our attention spans have shrunk to 47 seconds. Distractions can be dangerous, from missing red lights to ignoring health warnings.

But there’s hope: simple mindfulness, better habits, and phone boundaries can help us reclaim focus and live more present.

Read my latest article: https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-cant-i-focus-146585519?uutm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_contentjoin_link

#Focus #Concentration #Mindfulness #Productivity #DigitalDetox #AttentionSpan #SelfImprovement #MentalHealth

#ArtistUnknown
Unfound, certainly.

I dunno, have I already posted this one? Feh!
😉

#StreetArt #graffiti #AttentionSpan #London #photography

🚀🎉 Behold the #groundbreaking innovation: a ForYou page, but for essays! 📚✨ Because clearly what the Internet was missing was yet another algorithm to tell us what to read, as if our attention spans needed more confusing. 🙄 #Revolutionary #NotReally
https://www.browserbuddy.com/ #Innovation #ForYouPage #Essays #InternetTrends #AttentionSpan #HackerNews #ngated

🍌 #YesNotice, a website so groundbreaking it notifies you when "no" becomes "yes"—because who doesn't need a digital magic 8-ball for life's most trivial changes? 🙄 It’s like the digital equivalent of waiting for a pot to boil, except the pot is the entire internet and the water is your dwindling attention span. 💻🔔
https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/yesnotice/ #DigitalMagic8Ball #AttentionSpan #TrivialChanges #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

In a world where attention spans are shorter than a goldfish's memory 🐟, here's a 62-chapter Zig manifesto that'll revolutionize your philosophy (or just your ability to endure verbose #programming books). 🤯 Get ready to "zig" your way through the terminal like it's 1999! #lifechanging 🧘‍♂️
https://www.zigbook.net #ZigManifesto #AttentionSpan #Revolution #Terminal1999 #LifeChanging #HackerNews #ngated

Discover the evolution of advertising measurement, moving past vanity metrics like clicks to focus on true impact, attention, and RO https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/advertising-measurement-revolution-impact-t551dy76?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #advertising #roi #digitalmarketing #attentionspan

🛠️🚀 Another tech blog post promising to teach you about 'corrosion' but really testing the limits of your attention span. They throw in some developer #buzzwords and a thousand menu links, hoping you'll somehow end up dazzled and not just confused. 📚💤
https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/ #techblog #attentionspan #confusion #developerlife #HackerNews #ngated

🖥️ **Analyzing the Effects of TikTok on the Attention Span of Evolving High School Students**

"_After extensive examination, the findings of this study indicated that TikTok did have a greater negative influence on the attention spans of freshman students, affecting the way they absorb information during lecture lessons._"

🔗 https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/3463

#SocialMedia #TikTok #AttentionSpan #Education #Learning #Technology #Tech #Research

🚀 Breaking news! Humans now have the attention span of a goldfish, thanks to TikTok's relentless 60-second diet of brain-numbing content! 🎉 Who needs plot or character development when you can get dopamine hits faster than Congress can hold a hearing on data privacy? 📱🐟
https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/ #breakingnews #attentionspan #tiktok #dopaminehits #contentconsumption #modernlife #HackerNews #ngated

🧠 **A Surprising (and Easy) Way to Boost Your Attention Span**

"_Being in nature is great for your brain. Experts are trying to figure out why._"

🔗 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115032821702220283.

#Nature #Brain #AttentionSpan #GiftArticle #GiftLink

@9to5Mac I used IG Live maybe 5 times but it is a horrible experience. Of the 3K followers 30 show up but they come and go continuously during a live stream. IG users have the attention span of a chicken and just scroll and browse like mindless zombies.

#IGLive #InstagramLive #SocialMediaStruggles #ContentCreator #FollowerEngagement #AttentionSpan #SocialMediaReality #LiveStreaming #ContentCreatorLife #SocialMediaFrustration #DigitalMarketing #OnlineAudience #SocialMediaTruth

🤖✨ Let's all pretend we're shocked: command-line #tools aren't optimized for artificial intelligences with tiny attention spans. 🙄 Because, clearly, what the future of #AI really needs is another overcomplicated interface to add to the pile of existing digital mess. 🚀💻
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/ #DigitalInterface #CommandLine #AttentionSpan #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated

What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds than normal
#FastPlayback #DigitalLearning #CognitiveLoad #MemoryRecall #BrainHealth #OnlineLearning #VideoSpeed #EdTech #AttentionSpan #LearningScience #Neuroscience #MentalFatigue
https://the-14.com/what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-watch-videos-online-at-faster-speeds-than-normal/

"He told NPR in 1978, 'There's a relationship between attention span and morality. I think that, if you shorten people's attention span a great deal, you are left with only the attraction of power.'

"In 1992, he told NPR that his mission was to make the world a better place through his work, going beyond entertainment. 'That's what we live for, isn't it?' he said. 'To try to make it better.'"

Marcel Ophuls, who chronicled 20th century conflict and atrocities, dies at 97.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/683323335/marcel-ophuls-dead3

#AttentionSpan #morality #documentarian #filmmaker #nazis #Germany #France #HôtelTerminus #TheSorrowAndThePity