Colman Noctor

She'd listen to it on the car radio.

And my mother going mad, going, she's an exam tomorrow and there she's out listening to chart music or whatever it is.

But that was her way of preparing.

Do you know what I mean?

And again, I suppose... But...

The distraction is different now.

Doom scrolling is not a relaxing thing if you're going down these things.

And so what's vying for attention is oftentimes extremist content or provoking content or stimulating content that oftentimes

People don't tend to come away from scrolling on phones or whatever it is saying, I feel so much better now.

That's not a reaction we have.

So again, not all distractions are equal, but watching a movie or going to the cinema like you were suggested to do could be really helpful in terms of resetting the nervous system a little bit.

I'm just not so sure that young people have that accessibility or that opportunity to do that quite so much now.

Well, I think they could go to the cinema, that's absolutely, but I think the temptation to go to the phone as the means of distraction is always first port of call, you know.

Well, they reckon that your concentration peaks for 17 minutes and then starts to deteriorate after that.

17 minutes.

Yeah, that's where you can get you.

But after that, I remember having this argument with the lecturer who used to run two hour lectures that we after 17 minutes, our concentration is going.

So but a break can really replenish that.

I really think like.

Even if it's five minutes, even if it's just coming downstairs, even if it is just making a tea, there's an opportunity for a reset in that.