Manoush Zomorodi

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191 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Life Kit · Free yourself from 'information overload' · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So this was, again, a while back, but there was a podcast that I did where we asked people what their symptoms were. matched

And some of the things they mentioned were the eye twitch, inability to sleep because you feel like matched

your head is spinning and you've been looking at screens for so long that you can't just sort of like settle down. matched

Also feeling like you can't concentrate. matched

Having spoken to researchers like Gloria Mark at UC Irvine, who have studied how we switch our attention, one of the things that she has seen is that if you have an hour where you're switching from screen to screen and checking, you know, X and then going over to Instagram and going over to email, switching, switching, matched

Even if the next hour everything sort of calms down and you want to sit down with like a single article or something like that, you will start switching tasks yourself. matched

She observed that in the lab, that people will suddenly look up and go to their email. matched

And she estimated that up to around half of the interruptions that happen to us during the day actually are because of self-interruptions. matched

So even if nobody else is interrupting you, you will start interrupting yourself. matched

You will start switching tasks, trying to get in information in different ways. matched

It takes time to sort of slow down, marinate, get into the rhythm that is required for reading something carefully, cautiously, and just sort of juice it for what it's worth. matched

GLP-1s are best known as weight loss drugs, but they may also help people cut back on alcohol, cigarettes, and opioids. matched

Ideas about the brain, addiction, and empathy. matched

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast. matched

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. matched

Yeah, that sounds so boring, though. matched

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Let's call it set an information goal is how I like to think of it. matched

I like to think of people thinking of themselves as information athletes and they have information goals. matched

For example, all that switching that we talked about, you're switching contexts, right? matched

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