Life can feel fulfilling, or you might believe something needs to happen before your life is rewarding. Waiting for a transformation or change to occur for your needs for happiness to be met is a ...

Distraction is a curse of modern life. Between our cell phones and computer screens, not to mention our kids and coworkers, our attention is constantly being diverted. It can become difficult to focus ...

Stephanie Trigg has received funding from the Australian Research Council. Guilty as charged. Yes, I spend too much time on social media. Yes, I have become more easily distracted. Yes, I have given ...

Is distraction a curse or a blessing? Not giving full attention to what we should be doing makes us miss deadlines, fail classes, and crash into other drivers. Distraction certainly has a price.

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT.

Each generation seems convinced it is living through an unprecedented crisis of distraction. Attention spans are shrinking, focus is dissolving, and the noise of modern life feels overwhelming. In ...