Sarah Manavis on Twitter: "I tried to answer a question I've been thinking about for two months now: What is it about this pandemic that's making it so universally hard to focus? And how the fuck can we learn to concentrate again? https://t.co/oD9QmS6e4v"

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1. woeste grond‏ @woestegrond May 6
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  Maslow.
  
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1. Duncan McKay‏ @DuncMcKay May 6
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  thanks for writing this, it's really helpful!
  
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1. Mr_Meerkat‏ @Mr_Meerkat May 6
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  Thank you for this. It’s just hit me in the last week, and beating myself up about it continually.
  
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1. paulasantos‏ @paulasantos May 6
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  Great read!
  
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1. Andrea Clement Ⓥ‏ @Andreajane71 May 7
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  Great article, really helpful. Thank you.
  
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1. Ben Shave‏ @benshave May 10
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  Great piece. So good I read it in one sitting etc.
  
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1. social danstancing‏ @dan_nailed May 6
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  The better question is ‘can we maintain never needing to concentrate again?’ tbh
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1. Rupert Hardy‏ @roopth May 6
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  The only way I've found is to hide all twitter feeds for a while
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1. Oli Winton‏ @oliverwinton May 6
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  I'm ashamed to say I read two paragraphs of this and got distracted.
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1. Everyone's Favourite Jim‏ @JimmerUK May 6
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  Thanks for this. I'm massively struggling with focus at the moment, and have had to force myself through projects I would normally breeze through. It's nice to have an explanation, I thought I was going mental but it's my lizard brain taking precedence.
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