Adam Grant

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2,364 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Aug

Adam Grant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.

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ReThinking · Why a digital detox won’t reset your attention span with Gloria Mark · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

Spoiler alert, it's not great news. matched

But there's hope too, because she also discusses how attention spans are flexible and we can actually train ourselves to improve our concentration in our daily lives. matched

I hope we hold your attention for this conversation. matched

Think we will. matched

I have to ask you just to kick us off. matched

As an attention expert, do you do audits of your own attention? matched

But for you, getting distracted is almost easier to justify because you can call it research. matched

When did you start to get worried that our attention was getting frayed or fragmented? matched

And you did some of the pioneering work on actually measuring changes in our attention. matched

How did you operationalize it? matched

And even your early findings were not encouraging. matched

And what were your early hunches about why? matched

So th I think both information overload and just the number of channels that we can be interrupted on have only increased in the last two decades. matched

Yes. matched

What's happened to our attention as you've replicated this experiment over time? matched

Wow. matched

I hope our listeners have now been listening for longer than that to this conversation. matched

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What what's going on there? matched

Why why does it seem to be getting worse? matched

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