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Attention & focusFor everyone42 min read

Taking back control of your attention

You open your phone without having decided to, you lose track of what you were doing, and you end the day feeling you held on to nothing. This programme helps you understand what captures your attention, reduce the cost of interruptions, and decide what your tools are there to do for you.

In short

This programme is for an adult whose attention leaves without being asked. It rests on a simple, counter-intuitive idea: willpower is a weak and expensive lever, the environment is a strong and cheap one. It sets out what research has firmly established — the cost of interruptions, the effect of context on behaviour — and what it has not, including the most widespread claims about what screens supposedly do to the brain. Then it offers seven sessions, one a week, ten to twenty minutes a day.

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Attention & focus
Who it's for
For everyone
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The programme

This programme is psychoeducational content. It is not a diagnosis or a treatment and does not replace professional advice. Long-standing attention difficulties, present since childhood and across every area of life, call for a professional assessment: section 14 says exactly when to seek one. If suicidal thoughts appear, contact an emergency service or a helpline in your country without delay. Allow forty minutes of reading, and seven weeks of practice.

1. Before you begin

Who this programme is for

This programme is for you if you regularly find yourself somewhere you never chose to go. You open an app to check one thing, and you look up twenty minutes later. You start a piece of writing, read it three times, and no longer know where you were. You end the day tired, with the feeling of having been busy without having advanced.

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