Stolen Focus

"Stolen Focus" by Johann Hari, published by Bloomsbury Publishing. 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 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. ''Where other books about our relationship to technology tend to focus on personal responsibility, stressing the importance of self-control, Stolen Focus takes a step back and examines the ecosystem that created the problem ... Hari’s writing is incredibly readable, and the book combines moments of personal narrative with interviews of scholars and clear explanations of scientific research and experiments.'' - Rachel Zarrow, The San Francisco ChronicleWe think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing. Book details: 353 pages, published 2022. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.