How often do you spend your day clicking between open tabs and half-working on multiple projects rather than getting one thing done? Or else come out of your blue-light trance to realise you’ve spent 20 minutes scrolling 10-second videos on TikTok rather than getting on with the admin you had been planning?

There is no doubt that we have lost the ability to pay attention . Research from Dr Gloria Mark, professor at the University of California and author of Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance Happiness and Productivity , found that attention spans have dropped from two and a half minutes in 2004 to around 47 seconds in 2020.

“We are certainly getting better at training ourselves for distraction,’ says Nicole Vignola, neuroscientist and author of Rewire: Break

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