The Brain and the Heart: Our Need for Attention, the Desire for Connection and the Ongoing Work of Being Human in an Age of Distraction

Jonah Hall
7 min readJan 10, 2022
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Imagine walking into a cemetery and finding a headstone with the following words engraved in it:

“I should have spent more time following the every move of my favorite celebrity. No reception down here.”

Jonah Hall

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