Concentration: Staying Focused in Times of Distraction

How to concentrate in a world of beeping smartphones, channel surfing, live-tweeting, pop-up ads, and other distractions.



We are in the midst of an attention crisis-caused in large part by our smartphones. There's a constant stream of information that we are powerless to withstand because it shows up in our notifications. More and more of us are finding it harder and harder to concentrate.



The good news, attention expert Stefan Van der Stigchel reports, is that we now know more about brain an...