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245 10 a| Stolen focus :b| why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again /c| Johann Hari.;

250 a| First edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Crown,c| [2022];

300 a| xii, 345 pages ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-330) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Walking in Memphis -- Cause One: The Increase in Speed, Switching and Filtering -- Cause Two: The Crippling of our Flow States -- Cause Three: The Rise of Physical and Mental Exhaustion -- Cause Four: The Collapse of Sustained Reading -- Cause Five: The Disruption of Mind-Wandering -- Cause Six: The Rise of Technology That Can Track and Manipulate You (Part One) -- Cause Six: The Rise of Technology That Can Track and Manipulate You (Part Two) -- Cause Seven: The Rise of Cruel Optimism -- The First Glimpses of the Deeper Solution -- Cause Eight: The Surge in Stress and How it is Triggering Vigilance -- The Places That Figured Out How to Reverse the Surge in Speed and Exhaustion -- Causes Nine and Ten: Our Deteriorating Diets and Rising Pollution -- Cause Eleven: The Rise of ADHD and How We are Responding to it -- Cause Twelve: The Confinement of Our Children, Both Physically and Psychologically -- Conclusion: Attention Rebellion.;

520 a| "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. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but in the long-term, nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention and to study their scientific findings-and learned that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. In the U.S., teenagers now focus on a task for only sixty-five seconds on average, and office workers manage only three minutes. We think this inability to focus is a personal flaw, an individual failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: Our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces, and the science shows that these forces have been ramping up for decades-leaving us uniquely vulnerable, when social media arrived, to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit..."--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Stolen focus : why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again / Johann Hari.

Author/creator	Hari, Johann author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : Crown, [2022]
Description	xii, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects	Attention. Distraction (Psychology) Mindfulness (Psychology)

Contents	Introduction: Walking in Memphis -- Cause One: The Increase in Speed, Switching and Filtering -- Cause Two: The Crippling of our Flow States -- Cause Three: The Rise of Physical and Mental Exhaustion -- Cause Four: The Collapse of Sustained Reading -- Cause Five: The Disruption of Mind-Wandering -- Cause Six: The Rise of Technology That Can Track and Manipulate You (Part One) -- Cause Six: The Rise of Technology That Can Track and Manipulate You (Part Two) -- Cause Seven: The Rise of Cruel Optimism -- The First Glimpses of the Deeper Solution -- Cause Eight: The Surge in Stress and How it is Triggering Vigilance -- The Places That Figured Out How to Reverse the Surge in Speed and Exhaustion -- Causes Nine and Ten: Our Deteriorating Diets and Rising Pollution -- Cause Eleven: The Rise of ADHD and How We are Responding to it -- Cause Twelve: The Confinement of Our Children, Both Physically and Psychologically -- Conclusion: Attention Rebellion.
Abstract	"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. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but in the long-term, nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention and to study their scientific findings-and learned that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. In the U.S., teenagers now focus on a task for only sixty-five seconds on average, and office workers manage only three minutes. We think this inability to focus is a personal flaw, an individual failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: Our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces, and the science shows that these forces have been ramping up for decades-leaving us uniquely vulnerable, when social media arrived, to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit..."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-330) and index.
Interest age level	Adult Brodart.
Issued in other form	Online version: Hari, Johann. Stolen focus First edition. New York : Crown, [2021] 9780593138526
LCCN	2021040207
ISBN	9780593138519 (hardcover)

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