Dr. Dave Rabin

We're saying we're not teaching that properly at all.

And we're just saying, here, take this screen.

When you notice your attention's wandered, just swipe.

Just scroll.

That is not the solution.

That is distraction from learning attention control.

So we have to get back to remembering that attention is our chief muscle and it is that we should be training our whole lives.

And it is actually our...

it's like the gateway of our consciousness.

So anything that we give our attention to is allowed to come into us and it becomes part of us.

So where we put our attention couldn't be more important.

And that dictates everything that follows.

Yeah, and I talk about that in the book, in the dopamine economy chapter, about how we have created a capitalism that has incentivized, in many ways perversely, a...

attention economy state where our attention has become something that has a price value on it that corporations have a reason to buy and advertise for and that's the commodity right 100 yeah i've seen i don't know if this is true but our attention span is shorter than a goldfish now

I don't know if it's shorter than a goldfish, but it's very short.

I think probably the average person's attention spans like 6 to 12 seconds before they wander.

That's nuts.

Right?

But the good news is all it takes is noticing when your attention's wandered and bringing it back to the goal.

And every time you do that, you're strengthening your attention.