![]() ![]() Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. ![]() We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. ![]() 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. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but nothing seemed to work. 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. 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. 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. ![]() Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. ![]()
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