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Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? Listen to This (The New York Times)

A scholar of attention outlines how you can get your focus back in this Ezra Klein Show podcast.

I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. … So for the start of the new year, I wanted to have a conversation with Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, author of the book “Attention Span,” and one of the few people who’s deeply studied the way our attention works, how that’s been changing, and what we can do to stop frittering our attention budgets away.

Read an except and listen to the full Ezra Klein Show podcast in The New York Times.