mindfulness
is a
SUPER
POWER
Researchers surveyed 2,000 participants in Canada and studied the brain activity of
112 others using electroencephalograms. The results showed that the average human
attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000 (or around the time the mobile
revolution began), to just eight seconds. Meanwhile, goldfish are believed to have an
attention span of nine seconds! We have a distraction epidemic, says Lorraine Sebastian.
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