ELI5- Is it true that our attention span is shrinking?

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Is that even a thing? I definitely noticed that i multitask when playing games sometimes, i have a hard time finishing games or videos because i get bored half way through. And i wasn’t always like that.

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Bob Dylan said in his autobiography that he used to study operas because they lasted hours and music was limited to 2 to 3 minute songs at that time.

He wrote some 5 minute songs and shook the world with them. That was in the early 60s, 60 years ago. People have been saying this for years.

I think most people have short attention spans and have for a while. We just cater to it more these days.

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