Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781526620217. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing. Age Range: Adult (18+). Overview. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention is Johann Hari's internationally bestselling investigation into the modern attention crisis. Blending personal reporting, scientific research and global travel, Hari explores why so many of us now struggle to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time. This Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller offers a compelling, accessible diagnosis of a problem affecting millions, and a hopeful roadmap for reclaiming our minds in an increasingly distracting world.. About the Book. In Stolen Focus, journalist Johann Hari sets out to understand why our collective ability to pay attention appears to be collapsing. The average office worker, he reports, now focuses on a single task for just a few minutes before being pulled away. Rather than treating this as a personal failing, Hari argues attention has been deliberately eroded by forces largely outside our control technology design, workplace culture, diet, pollution, and broader social and economic pressures. Travelling the world and speaking to leading scientists, technologists and campaigners, Hari identifies twelve interlocking causes behind the crisis, moving from Silicon Valley insiders who helped build addictive technology to communities where attention has been reshaped by entirely different pressures. The result is a book praised as a Spectato...