Stolen focus : why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again
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Published
New York : Crown, [2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 345 pages ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Crown, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-330) and index.
Description
"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 happening-and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but in the long-term, nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention and to study their scientific findings-and learned that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. In the U.S., teenagers now focus on a task for only sixty-five seconds on average, and office workers manage only three minutes. We think this inability to focus is a personal flaw, an individual failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: Our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces, and the science shows that these forces have been ramping up for decades-leaving us uniquely vulnerable, when social media arrived, to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit..."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hari, J. (2022). Stolen focus: why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again (First edition.). Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hari, Johann. 2022. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again. Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hari, Johann. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again Crown, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hari, Johann. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again First edition., Crown, 2022.
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