Excellent. Thank you. Finding my focus again in retirement. Those of my age have one advantage - we remember how we functioned before the internet. We’re just as vulnerable to technology, but we have a reference point & know the path back. I’m worried about those who follow, however.

Thank You! ... 7.39 in forward ;) Lovely! 5.40 in, great! I have become very allergic to commercials, and I feel its a Good Sound thing, in me, that stops too much to get into me. And also, irritated, when I see parents, (with (small) children, playing in some playground) just looking into their phones. I too want to run infront of them screaming I take that now, so you can make time for your kids, who just long for their parents Being There Close and Playfully Aware. Too much kidnapping our Focus and Attention. It is said somewhere, we today have a focus-span of 45sec´s. I had this jumping from one task to another, in a high volume stressinducing workplace, for yrs in a job I had and daily high interruptions of the focus, it was terrible. Made my brain still having trouble with too much not able to be in too high sounds/chatter. Thank you listening to this is so Good. I lived without connections/internet aso for a time, and had a profound feeling of connection from inside. And a greater calm.

This is a great video. I know because I watch way too much UKposts. Anyway, Rat Park dude laid out a train of thought starting with the Marshmallow Test which I suddenly realized isn't as much a statement of willpower, but how individuals find satisfaction in life. I would have been a two later kid, but I would be happier with one now. First of4- what's one more marshmallow? You get about as much essence of marshmallowyness from one as you do two, so if the idea of spontaneously having one marshmallow when the idea of having a marshmallow is presented and all the enzymes and biome production first kicks in...different things work differently for different people and for most people differently on different days. Something ironic about savoring this video twice because I let myself get distracted by a train of thought.

One of the reasons I retired early. The constant forced incoherent distraction in the workplace was crazy.

Isn't mass brain scrambling the idea? Seems to be working well in the UK anyway.

I got my 1st degree in the 90s. My gateway "drug" into a literate life was a big @#$, conspicuoulsly located, family bookshelf. I notice the real challenge work & night school present to people who were raised on phones - they were cheated, badly.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi