{"id":7663,"date":"2018-11-17T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2018-11-17T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:22:22","slug":"the-lost-art-of-concentration-being-distracted-in-a-digital-world-life-and-style-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/17\/the-lost-art-of-concentration-being-distracted-in-a-digital-world-life-and-style-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world &#124; Life and style &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With our heavy use of digital media, it could be said that we have taken multitasking to new heights, but we\u2019re not actually multitasking; rather, we are switching rapidly between different activities. Adrenaline and cortisol are designed to support us through bursts of intense activity, but in the long term cortisol can knock out the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine in the brain, which help us feel calm and happy, affecting our sleep and heart rate and making us feel jittery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/oct\/14\/the-lost-art-of-concentration-being-distracted-in-a-digital-world?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world | Life and style | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our heavy use of digital media, it could be said that we have taken multitasking to new heights, but we\u2019re not actually multitasking; rather, we are switching rapidly between different activities. Adrenaline and cortisol are designed to support us through bursts of intense activity, but in the long term cortisol can knock out the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/17\/the-lost-art-of-concentration-being-distracted-in-a-digital-world-life-and-style-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world &#124; Life and style &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}