Cognitive scientists explain what’s driving the precipitous decline in our ability to focus—and offer evidence-based ...

Success is often explained as talent, intelligence, or luck. But if you look closely at people who consistently perform well ...

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Try a screen-free meal. Eat without scrolling, listening to podcasts or watching videos; let it be just the food and your ...

In a typical office environment, workers are interrupted approximately every three minutes by digital notifications, colleague requests, or their own wandering minds. Research from the University of ...

By making modest adjustments to promote attention at home and at school, we can strengthen our ability to concentrate.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dilan Gomih is a well-being expert focused on workplace performance. Feeling increasingly distracted? New data suggests it’s not ...

How many times per day do you check your phone? According to Gloria Mark, psychologist and author of Attention Span, people swipe from screen to screen about 566 times per day, and about half of those ...

Whether we identify as mindful newbies or seen-it-all veterans, the basic tactics of meditation we all work with are quite simple to frame out: Pick a thing in our conscious awareness to attend to.