Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutionseven abandoning his phone for three monthsbut nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attentionand he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers productivity. Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focusas individuals, and as a societyif we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

Details e-book Stolen Focus

🗸 Author(s): Johann Hari
🗸 Title: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
🗸 Rating : 4.4 from 5 stars (4197 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
🗸 Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle

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