Stolen Focus

Resumen del libro

Bloomsbury presents Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, read by Johann Hari.

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 best-selling 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 12 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.

Biografía del autor

Johann Hari es un afamado divulgador cuyas obras se han publicado en 38 idiomas. Su primer libro, Tras el grito, fue adaptado al cine x{0026} x02013;recibió una nominación a los Óscarsx{0026} x02013; y a la televisión, en una serie de ocho capítulos presentados por Samuel L Jackson. Su segundo libro, Conexiones perdidas, fue asimismo un gran éxito de ventas. Ha colaborado con The New York Times, Le Monde y The Guardian, entre otros periódicos. Sus Charlas TED sobre adicción y depresión han tenido más de 80 millones de visualizaciones, y su trabajo ha sido elogiado por personas de la talla de Oprah Winfrey, Noam Chomsky o Joe Rogan.<br> Más información: www.johannhari.com/ johannhari101