Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author. His first book, Chasing the Scream, was a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted into a Hollywood feature film. His second book, Lost Connections, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and others. His TED Talk, ‘Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong’, and the animation based on it, have had more than twenty million views.

Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? Most importantly, how do we get it back?

Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to find out. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing, a flaw in each one of us. It is not.

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(00:00) Introduction
(03:34) Why did you start writing Stolen Focus?
(10:25) 12 factors to boost & degrade our attention
(14:16) First factor to disrupt your attention
(18:26) The impact of Slack & social media platforms
(21:40) How Facebook makes money from you
(24:45) The subconscious effects of social media notifications
(27:50) How apps are designed to keep you scrolling
(31:35) Creating a new business model for social media
(36:20) Building tech that heals and repairs our attention
(38:00) How our relationship with food alters our attention
(41:20) The impact of food on concentration & thinking
(48:30) The importance & effects of sleep
(56:25) Setting hard and fast rules with companies

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