Week 4: Stolen Focus

This week's non-fiction book is Stolen Focus by Johan Hari. In my personal opinion, it is one of the most important books of the decade. We should all read this one.

Hari explores our collective inability to pay attention, and why this has increased over the last ten years. He interviews a number of experts to find out how and why our phones have been designed to keep us distracted. Is this something we are doing to ourselves, or is this being done to us?

 

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Johan Hari's interview with Oprah Winfrey:

• Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/johann-hari-stolen-focus-pt-1/id1264843400?i=1000555669267
• Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/johann-hari-stolen-focus-pt-2/id1264843400?i=1000555669244 

 

Johan Hari's other books:

• On depression: Lost Connections
• On addiction: Chasing the Scream

 

Other book mentioned in this episode: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.

 

Johan's conversation with Nir Eyal (chapter 8): https://stolenfocusbook.com/audio/