. Paying attention is the most important part of good listening. But it's become almost a clich to say that attention spans are declining. The usual culprit for this decline is technology - in my youth, television was to blame, and nowadays the assortment of gadgets surrounding us. But this article throws some cold water on that idea - https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790 Are attention spans really declining? Is this just another case of one generation looking down on another? If they are declining, what might be the actual cause?