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

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  • Hardcover
  • 9780593138519
  • 25 januari 2022
  • 368 pagina's
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Johann Hari

"Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a Swiss-British writer and journalist. His journalism has been the subject of accusations of plagiarism, due to numerous cases of him including quotes from other sources as if they were said directly to him; something Hari initially denied but later admitted. He was identified as, and later admitted being, the author of pejorative edits (under an anonymous pseudonym) of his critics' Wikipedia pages. Hari's Orwell Prize, awarded to him in 2008, was officially revoked following charges of plagiarism and he was asked to return it. He has written for a number of publications including The Independent (London) and The Huffington Post and has written books on the topic of the war on drugs, the monarchy, and depression. He also gave a TED talk on the topic of addiction.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.

“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again

“Read this book to save your mind.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet


WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful

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 was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers’ productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society—if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

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  • Aanrader.

    Positieve punten

    • Modern (2022)
    • Heeft een verhaallijn
    • Makkelijk te lezen

    Negatieve punten

    • Niet meteen een self-help boek

    Haalt meer aan dan enkel het probleem van aandacht en focus, en gaat dieper in op de problemen die hiervoor zorgen. Als je kinderen hebt die volgens leerkrachten en dokters "ADHD" of een andere vorm van aandachtsstoornissen hebben, mag je echt geen seconde twijfelen om dit boek te lezen.
    De rest van het boek gaat over de grote problemen die zorgen voor deze aandachtscrisis en enkele stappen om jouw aandacht te verbeteren en je niet de laten vangen door door deze boosdoeners.
    Al bij al een heel aangenaam lezend boek waarvan de kans vrij groot is dat het een levensveranderde impact zal hebben.
    Bij twijfel gewoon kopen, terugsturen kan altijd ;)

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  • Aanrader!

    Eigenlijk zou iedereen dit boek moeten lezen.

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