Name: Stolen Focus: Why you Can't pay Attention--And how to Think Deeply Again
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Author: Johann Hari
ISBN: 9780593138519

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Stolen Focus: Why you Can't pay Attention--And how to Think Deeply Again

Type

Physical Book

Author

Johann Hari

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group (Ny)

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.6 x 15.8 x 3.5 cm

Weight

0.58 kg.

ISBN13

9780593138519

Synopsis "Stolen Focus: Why you Can't pay Attention--And how to Think Deeply Again "

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. "The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction."--Adam Grant, author of Think Again "Read this book to save your mind."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, 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 solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and 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 focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

Johann Hari

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Johann Hari is a renowned popularizer whose works have been published in 38 languages. His first book, Chasing the Scream, was adapted into film –received an Oscar nomination– and television, in a series of eight episodes presented by Samuel L Jackson. His second book, Lost Connections, was also a major sales success. He has collaborated with The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Guardian, among other newspapers. His TED Talks on addiction and depression have had more than 80 million views, and his work has been praised by people like Oprah Winfrey, Noam Chomsky, and Joe Rogan.

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