Is it difficult for you to stay away from your phone? Do you often find yourself searching your pockets for your phone, even when you are in a crowded metro or at the movies? Well, attention fragmentation is real, and it has quite become one of the most defining problems of our lives.

We are scattered, if not overstimulated; the screens are constantly pulling us. Resultantly, it has become nearly impossible to focus on a single task. Many experts argue that our attention spans are not just shorter now; they are deteriorating by design.

It’s just not us who are feeling it. The consequences of this shift run deeper, especially when you think of the slow immersive focus that is needed for reading. In his recent interview with the BBC Global, bestselling author John Grisham, when asked what

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