![]() 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. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. I’m well aware of the irony of listening to an audiobook about focususually while doing other tasks. After listening, I picked up the ebook to focus more on his action steps. ![]() The author also does a great job of narrating the audiobook. 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. What I appreciate about Hari’s work is how he takes a topic and looks at it in unique ways. Explicitly using the verb to steal here is akin to saying that our ability to focus hasn’t been merely directed to other things (like. Books often cost their authors a lot, and this book costed Johann Hari hundreds of hours of focus and deep research, and 30,000 miles of travel. 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 behind our shortening attention spans. Stolen Focus We are all prone to this temptation. ![]()
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