As posted to the Wall Street Journal YouTube Channel on 5/20/19

(Run time: 5 min, 17 sec)

Our phones give us instant gratification.  But there’s a cost: loss of attention and productivity.  Attention is a limited resource.  At any particulary moment you can only have that much of it.  We live in an age of constant distractions.  9-5 is out, and 24/7 is in.  With our smartphone in hand, we now bring our work with us everywhere.  But do our devices make us less attentive?

Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ’s) Daniela Hernandez goes on a quest to understand the science of distractions and what you can do to stay focused and productive.

(This is Blog Post #616)

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