[Music] Good evening everyone. Um, I'm Claudia W. I'm an assistant professor from the department of health and physical education at at UHK.I do research on psychological well-being and mainly on self-compassion. Before I began my academic career, I was a Hong Kong elite swimmer um specializing in marathon and long-distance swimming. And even though I didn't get into a full-time career, so I still trained twice a day, six days for weeks and also attend school after every training session.And after I retired ...

8.25% seconds. That's the apparent average attention span of humans today. Evidently shorter than that of a goldfish.Don't tell me I've lost you already. Maybe I'll have to snap every 8 seconds to make sure I've got your attention. Social media is a massive and obvious cause of such a decline in the global attention span.But how so. It's this thing called the dopamine reward loop. Dopamine release creates a sense of pleasure and satisfaction when we experience or expect something rewarding.This trains our b ...