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Author, Johann Hari reckons our ability to focus didn't just disappear — it was stolen! This is a crisis and it's not your fault. Johann explains why you touch your phone 2167 times a day, why the average office worker can only focus on a task for three minutes, and why our kids' attention is shot. But it's one thing to lose the joy of reading a long book, it's another to distract an entire society away from democracy, peace and, well, survival. This is what distresses me most - we've become a shouty-yet-consenting “society on fire”. Mercifully, Johann has fixes...
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Author, Johann Hari reckons our ability to focus didn't just disappear — it was stolen! This is a crisis and it's not your fault. Johann explains why you touch your phone 2167 times a day, why the average office worker can only focus on a task for three minutes, and why our kids' attention is shot. But it's one thing to lose the joy of reading a long book, it's another to distract an entire society away from democracy, peace and, well, survival. This is what distresses me most - we've become a shouty-yet-consenting “society on fire”. Mercifully, Johann has fixes...
Read Stolen Focus by Johann Hari: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/9Wr9e3
More about Johann Hari: https://johannhari.com/
Find out more about Sarah Wilson
Subscribe to Sarah's Substack newsletter
Get your copy of Sarah's book, This One Wild and Precious Life
Connect on Instagram
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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