Adam Grant

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

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

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You know, one of the things that's striking to me is that at some level this goes deep. matched

Like it's not just that our attention might be hijacked. matched

It's also I think visible in our bodies according to your work. matched

Tell me about the research you did on email and and how it affects us physiologically. matched

So it it's it's a little puzzling to me that on the one hand we don't like being interrupted. matched

On the other hand, we're constantly interrupting ourselves. matched

Well, I love that you use the word determined because it speaks to something that I've been thinking and writing and talking about for a few years now, which is how much of a shortening attention span is a function of capacity, as it's often talked about, versus motivation, as I tend to see it. matched

And last year we had Daniel Immervar on the show. matched

He wrote a New Yorker piece you're probably familiar with. matched

on the attention crisis being potentially a distraction. matched

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And I think that in some ways this conversation builds on the chat that I had with Daniel. matched

So we actually reached out to him and asked him to record a question for you. matched

And I'd love to play it for you so you can react. matched

So putting your perspectives together, what I'm wondering is do we have a higher threshold for what's worthy of our attention? matched

So we were more tolerant of boredom before, or we were less dependent on a hook to keep our our interest. matched

And now it might have been that we would have sat with a book for five or 10 minutes when we were bored, or we might have stayed with a movie for the first half hour to see if we liked it. matched

And now if it's a dud in the first minute, I'm moving on because I have lots of other places that I can easily allocate my attention. matched

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