Stolen Focus
The Ultimate Guide on How to Reclaim Your Clarity and Focus and Start Living a Purposeful Life

This was so good! One of those books everyone should read. My sometimes lazily taken notes: • In 2013, on twitter, a topic would remain in the most discussed topics for 17.5 hours. In 2016, this had dropped to 11.9 hours. • Scientists used an algorithm to check how long people spend on a topic before......more

I loved most of the book, there's been quite some good advice I've been able to use to start healing my focus and I found the sections on how these sites are intentionally made to worsen our attention problems very enlightening. There is however a caveat - the chapter (or was it 2 chapters) on ADHD.......more

I read this book—and Hari’s other popular book, Lost Connections—before I realized that he has a somewhat checkered past as a journalist. I loved Hari’s writing, and he can certainly weave together compelling interviews to craft a strong argument. His books are a breeze to read. But once I Googled h......more

When I finished this book, I was extremely conflicted, and I figured out why. I hold Johann Hari to an extremely high standard because I truly believe that his previous book Lost Connections is one of the most important books ever written about depression, and I’ve read it multiple times. Johann and......more

What stole our focus? The answer might surprise you. We spend too much time on social media such as Facebook, Google, Instagram etc. The tech giants are designing tech and algorithms to exploit our attention for profit. Other factors include environmental pollution, poor sleep, and nutrition, which im......more