The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
We kind of think that, uh, elements of attention are sort of involved in controlling all of our behaviors. Um, and when our attention is depleted, um, we don't have as much impulse control. We might behave more aggressively. Um, you know, we may not be able to achieve our goals. Um, and with a lot of things in the modern world, our attention is just being fatigued and we're depleted.
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And this is kind of a very, you know, unique human capability. There might be other species that can kind of decide what to pay attention to, but we're really good at it. Humans are really, really good at being able to like focus on this lecture or focus on reading this paper, focus on trying to uh finish this math problem, but we can't do it forever.