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020 _a9781526654014
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_bHAR
100 _aHari, Johann
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245 _aStolen focus:
_bwhy you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again
260 _bBloomsbury Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
_aLondon
_c2022
300 _a340 p.
365 _aINR
_b599.00
520 _aFor Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. 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 cases 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.
650 _aDistraction (Psychology)
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