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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention

by Johann Hari
RM37.01 MYR
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - Thryft
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - Thryft

Uncovering the truth behind our scattered attention.

This book is for anyone who has ever struggled to maintain focus in an increasingly distracting world. Johann Hari takes you on a journey, exploring the reasons why our ability to concentrate has diminished and how powerful external forces have contributed to this crisis. Through fascinating stories and interviews, he reveals that our lack of focus is not a personal failing, but a result of societal factors. Ultimately, he offers hope and strategies for reclaiming our attention and regaining control over our lives.

  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Marketing Strategy and Nominee for International Book (2023)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention

by Johann Hari
RM37.01 MYR
ISBN: 9781526620163
Authors: Johann Hari
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Date of Publication: 2022-01-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Personal Development
Related Topics: Psychology, Health, Mental Health, Psychology, Productivity, Personal Development, Mental Health
Goodreads rating: 4.24
(rated by 46651 readers)

Description

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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Uncovering the truth behind our scattered attention.

This book is for anyone who has ever struggled to maintain focus in an increasingly distracting world. Johann Hari takes you on a journey, exploring the reasons why our ability to concentrate has diminished and how powerful external forces have contributed to this crisis. Through fascinating stories and interviews, he reveals that our lack of focus is not a personal failing, but a result of societal factors. Ultimately, he offers hope and strategies for reclaiming our attention and regaining control over our lives.

  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Marketing Strategy and Nominee for International Book (2023)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.