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How Smartphones Sabotage Your Brain's Ability to Focus

Geoff Riley

28th May 2019

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This video from the Wall Street Journal argues that addiction to smartphone emails and notifications has a cost in terms of our attention and ability to focus.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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