Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?
For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject ...
Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?
For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. 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. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. Johann discovered there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention.
Crucially, he learned how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A SPECTATOR AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022
'If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one' TELEGRAPH
'This book is exactly what the world needs right now' OPRAH WINFREY
'A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention' STEPHEN FRY
'A really important book . . . Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY
作者简介
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Johann Hari is a writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian and other newspapers. His TED talks have been viewed over 70 million times, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah to Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan. He lives in London. www.johannhari.com @johannhari101
目录
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Introduction: Walking in Memphis
1 Cause One: The Increase in Speed, Switching and Filtering
2 Cause Two: The Crippling of Our Flow States
3 Cause Three: The Rise of Physical and Mental Exhaustion
4 Cause Four: The Collapse of Sustained Reading
5 Cause Five: The Disruption of Mind-Wandering
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Introduction: Walking in Memphis
1 Cause One: The Increase in Speed, Switching and Filtering
2 Cause Two: The Crippling of Our Flow States
3 Cause Three: The Rise of Physical and Mental Exhaustion
4 Cause Four: The Collapse of Sustained Reading
5 Cause Five: The Disruption of Mind-Wandering
6 Cause Six: The Rise of Technology That Can Track and Manipulate You (Part One)
7 Cause Six: The Rise of Technology That Can Track and Manipulate You (Part Two)
8 Cause Seven: The Rise of Cruel Optimism
9 The First Glimpses of the Deeper Solution
10 Cause Eight: The Surge in Stress and How It Is Triggering Vigilance
11 The Places That Figured Out How to Reverse the Surge in Speed and Exhaustion
12 Causes Nine and Ten: Out Deteriorating Diets and Rising Pollution
13 Cause Eleven: The Rise of ADHD and How We Are Responding to It
14 Cause Twelve: The Confinement of Our Children, Both Physically and Psychologically
Conclusion: Attention Rebellion
Groups Already Fighting to Improve Attention
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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Stolen focus: why you can't pay attention by Johann Hari This is a book that will make you want to focus on anything but reading it. It is a hodgepoge of small pieces of information the author found online,without any original or insightful ideas. Even wors...
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0 有用 A 2025-05-07 22:35:16 美国
Terrible. Tons of unnecessary anecdotes and over-detailed portraits of interviewees.
0 有用 李北茄 2025-03-28 16:11:39 上海
后面看不进去了，好啰嗦
0 有用 Lacrimosa 2025-07-03 21:12:19 北京
better than I expected I wasn’t expecting much
0 有用 独行割手 2025-07-27 15:58:33 湖南
"we would lament our lost capacity of concentration,as if it was a friend who had vanished one day at sea and never been seen since"
0 有用 松下野果🌈 2025-09-13 12:08:02 新西兰
人类想要抵御现代科技与算法的冲击，几乎是以卵击石。当我们沉迷于短视频，三分钟热度时，不应过度自责-因为这是普遍存在的现代困境，很难完全抵抗。 再加上信息过载和环境压力，深加工食品睡眠不足，工业社会对快和及时反馈的痴迷等，都加剧了注意力缺失。 具体可行的策略： 1.有意识地减少信息输入，学会屏蔽噪音。 2.主动去做事，而不是被动地消费信息。 3.在工作时把手机收起来，break the cue ... 人类想要抵御现代科技与算法的冲击，几乎是以卵击石。当我们沉迷于短视频，三分钟热度时，不应过度自责-因为这是普遍存在的现代困境，很难完全抵抗。 再加上信息过载和环境压力，深加工食品睡眠不足，工业社会对快和及时反馈的痴迷等，都加剧了注意力缺失。 具体可行的策略： 1.有意识地减少信息输入，学会屏蔽噪音。 2.主动去做事，而不是被动地消费信息。 3.在工作时把手机收起来，break the cue 4.当有刷手机或短视频的冲动时，用替代性的激励来转移注意力。 5.回归自然 最后，还是得靠系统性变革，社会层面政策与设计转型。 (展开)