New research by a major creator of the digital age highlights the mental turmoil made manifest by our incredible shrinking attention span. But all is not lost
Recent research by Microsoft suggests that the average human attention span now stands at eight seconds. That is less, apparently, than that of a goldfish. This is astonishing. Can the quality and depth of our thinking have been so deeply affected by the incessant distractions of modern life? Our minds are precarious and vulnerable. Whenever we suffer pain, something in our consciousness is always quick to identify with that pain and we relay it over and over again, so that the stress we experience is magnified and intensified. The American Franciscan writer, Richard Rohr, believes that “almost all humans have Obsessive Comp
09 July 2015, The Tablet
It’s the thoughts that count
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