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People have often attributed the lack of privacy in today’s world to a “fishbowl” sort of lifestyle.
It turns out that life in a fishbowl is not only transparent, but also scattered. In other words, many modern-day people have less of an attention span than even a goldfish.
Kevin McSpadden of TIME
reports that the attention span of a goldfish averages nine seconds.
A new study from Microsoft reveals that “people now generally lose concentration after eight seconds.”
And Microsoft should know, since it is often “the affects of an increasingly digitalized lifestyle on the brain” that causes the mind to hop around like a bunny on steroids…
Resources
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/you-now-have-a-shorter-attention-span-than-a-goldfish/ar-BBjLNpp
Copyright May 18, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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