Stolen Focus
Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
by Johann Hari
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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Harini Calamur and Christopher Mims
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Recommended by 9 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happeningand how to get our attention back. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixtyfive seconds at a time, and office workers average only...
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