Article Summary:
Gloria Mark is Chancellor’s professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her new book covers her research from over the last two decades about how our attention and our minds have changed in the digital age.
In this article, Gloria shares 5 key insights from her new book, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness, and Productivity. The five insights are:
- Use precious attentional resources wisely
- We can leverage different types of attention to our benefit
- We interrupt ourselves half the time
- You can develop agency to manage your attention
- Set a goal to maintain your well-being when you using devices