The release date for the English version of 'Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention<Comment>and How to Think Deeply Again' by
Johann Hari is Jan 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Our capacity for focus is deteriorating. This ground-breaking investigation into why this is occurring and strategies for regaining our attention comes from the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections.
Teenagers in the US can only concentrate on a single activity for 65 seconds at a time, while office professionals can only concentrate for three minutes on average. Johann Hari was discovering, like so many of us, that living a life of perpetual tab flipping and gadget hopping was a dwindling and dismal way to live. He attempted a variety of self-help techniques, including giving up his phone for three months, but nothing seemed to help. In order to interview the top authorities on human attention, Hari set out on an incredible global tour. Upon arriving, he learned that our preconceived notions about the nature of this catastrophe are completely false.
We believe that our inability to concentrate results from a lack of willpower on our part to put down our gadgets. The troubling reality is that firms seeking to profit from our attention are able to take advantage of our particular vulnerability as a result of strong external pressures stealing our concentration. According to Hari, there are twelve profound reasons for this issue, which have taken up part of our attention. These reasons range from the decrease in mind-wandering to the rise in pollution. He exposes readers to veterinary professionals who diagnose dogs with ADHD and Silicon Valley rebels who discovered how to manipulate human attention in his book Stolen Focus. He visits a Rio de Janeiro slum where everyone seems to have lost their focus in a very bizarre manner, as well as a New Zealand workplace that found an amazing approach to get employees back to work.
Crucially, Hari discovered that if we are willing to fight for it, we can recover our focus as a community and as individuals. The discussion of focus will be transformed by Stolen Focus, which will also ultimately demonstrate how to regain it.