The Internet Ruined My Brain: How I Fixed My Focus

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My attention was a mess - here’s now I improved it.

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Journal by Freud mentioned: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.52968/2015.52968.Sigmund-Freud---Collected-Papers--Vol3_djvu.txt (if you search for "1905 ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF HYSTERIA I3I” in the text, you’ll get to the part mentioned, sorry it’s not cleaner, it’s the best place I found to share it as open source online!)

To make your life easier:
0:00 Intro
3:23 Explore vs Exploit Attention
15:57 The Roots of Attentional Anxiety
23:51 Saving Attention for Later

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