How To Fix Your Attention Span Before It’s Too Late

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I am your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself so that you can improve your life. So if you're interested in that, hit that subscribe button. Today, I'm gonna be talking to you about how to fix your attention span because human attention spans right now are absolutely terrible. Not like kind of bad, not a little bit worse than before, but I mean historically bad, the worst they have ever been. And most people in this world can't read for ten minutes without having to check their phone. They can't watch a movie without multitasking. They can't sit in silence without feeling uncomfortable. They can't even go to the bathroom without having to bring their phone with them. And so let me say this really clearly. This isn't like a personal failure or a shot at yourself. This is a neurological consequence of the world that we currently live in. And so your brain, it didn't suddenly get worse. It got trained over the past ten, fifteen, twenty years, but not in a good way. And so if you want to be productive, if you want to create the life that you want, you need to fix your attention span. You need to learn how to focus, and that's what we're gonna dive into today. Let's talk about real quickly our attention spans and how they are objectively shrinking. And so this isn't like, oh, I kinda feel like I have less focus. There's multiple studies I wanna cover with you so you can actually understand. There was a Microsoft study that was done in 2015 that found that the average human attention span has dropped from twelve seconds in 2000 to eight seconds in 2015. That's shorter than a goldfish. A goldfish has a better attention span than the average human, and that was over a decade ago. Do you think it's been worse? It's probably gotten worse. Right? So in the fifteen years from '20 or from 2015 to 2015, it got 33% worse because that's before smartphones and before social media came out, and that's one of the two things that's killing our attention spans the most. Now before people, like, argue over the semantics of all of this, what actually really matters is that sustained attention and the capacity for it is declining in the average human, especially because of our digital environments. Another study was done from King's College London found that heavy digital use was associated with reduced ability to maintain focus on demanding tasks and increased distractibility. So what does that all mean? It means the more that you use your phone, the harder it becomes for you to focus. That's So what it comes down to. And so your brain is being …