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Week 4: Stolen Focus The 15-Minute Book Club

    • Books

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?
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/  

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?
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/  

11 min