"It's believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal Did I leave the oven on?. And those are just the ones that register. Subconsciously, we're constantly sifting through a barrage of stimuli: background noise, clutter on our desks, the mere presence of our phones. Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains. Just 0.0004% is perceived by our conscious minds, showing just how hard our brains are working to parse what's sufficiently relevant to bring to our attention."
"Formidable though they may be, our brains' processing powers are a poor match for the fast-paced modern world, the constant pings of our devices and sources of distraction. Many of us routinely feel overwhelmed, and struggle to focus on what we need to get done. But a new book suggests doing so may be easier than we think. In Focus On-Off, Dutch experts Mark Tigchelaar and Oscar de Bos argue that we can better harness our attention"
Humans generate roughly 50,000 thoughts daily while the brain processes about 11 million bits of sensory information every second. Conscious awareness registers only about 0.0004% of that input, indicating intense subconscious filtering to determine relevance. Modern environments — constant device pings, background noise, and visual clutter — overload processing capacity and produce frequent feelings of distraction and overwhelm. Many common lapses in concentration stem from the brain prioritizing apparently valuable stimuli, not from a lack of effort. Attention can be improved by understanding how the brain selects inputs and by managing environmental and cognitive leaks that undermine sustained focus.
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