Johann Hari’s new book Stolen Focus is all about the crisis in concentration sweeping the world. The book goes into why it’s happening, how much it’s affecting us, and what can be done to tackle the problem.

 

Johann joins us to explain there are so many things competing for our attention, it makes it really hard to focus. Can we fight back against it as individuals... by being more disciplined... or is there a bigger war we need to wage on the forces that are stealing our attention?

 

There is a lot we can do to change our own behaviour, but will it ever be enough when we’re up against the best engineers in the world, who work for the social media companies that so often fight for our focus. 

 

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