Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari

347 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab ...

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