Stolen focus : why you can't pay attention
Hari, Johann2021
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For this book, the author 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.
Main title:
Stolen focus : why you can't pay attention / Johann Hari.
Author:
Hari, Johann, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2022.©2022
Collation:
340 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526620163 (paperback)
Dewey class:
153.733153.73
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
467321
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLADESVILLE | ADULT NON-FICTION | 153.73 HARIHealth & Family | Available |
| RYDE | ADULT NON-FICTION | 153.73 HARIHealth & Family | Available |
| WEST RYDE | ADULT NON-FICTION | 153.73 HARIHealth & Family | Onloan - Due: 26 Mar 2026 |