Does the media we're consuming affect our learning abilities?

Rasheed K Mozaffar - Feb 22 - - Dev Community

During these times, the main type of media we're heavily consuming and obsessing over is short videos, which is highly stimulating, and it's basically everywhere, from YouTube to TikTok to Instagram, we're literally surrounded!

So after getting used to this type of content, do you think it's become harder to pay solid attention for things that are significantly less stimulating or plain boring in other words, like reading technical books, blog posts, language documentation or even long-form YouTube tutorials? Is this form of media ACTUALLy affecting our learning outcomes and making it more challenging to sit and have a concentrated studying/working session with undivided attention?

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