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People who cannot sit through a film without checking their phone aren’t distracted, they’ve quietly lost the tolerance for sustained attention that used to feel like the baseline of being a person

People who cannot sit through a film without checking their phone aren’t distracted, they’ve quietly lost the tolerance for sustained attention that used to feel like the baseline of being a person

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The brain's underlying capacity to concentrate has not measurably declined, but the willingness to stay with anything slow has. What people call distraction is closer to a quiet erosion of tolerance, and the film is the honest test.

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