Society & Culture
JOHANN HARI: THIS is why you're finding the world too much
2022-03-08
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/
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