Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again

Cover Art for 9780593138533, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
ISBN: 9780593138533
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 24 January, 2023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A major new book from internationally bestselling author Johann Hari that chronicles our attention crisis and what needs to happen for us to solve it 'A really important book . . . Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY 'A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention' STEPHEN FRY

Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing a flaw in each one of us. It is not. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention. Crucially, he learned how as individuals, and as a society we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.

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