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S'està carregant… Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again (edició 2022)de Johann Hari (Autor)
Informació de l'obraStolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again de Johann Hari
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Another ADD book that I got as an audiobook, but I’m already very discouraged. I don’t like the narrators accent and the book is too boring for anyone with ADD to finish. Like most self-help books, rather than telling you what you could do to help yourself in a nutshell, they pad and expand the book with long stories about this or that person and what they did. Everyone wants to write an ADD book nowadays and they’re very few that are actually helpful for managing ADD. *4.5* A great (and important) read. I really liked the way Johann Hari writes and how he put all of his stories together into a coherent whole. Many of the topics he dives into will be familiar to a lot of readers, I think (myself included) - but to have them all so clearly presented, and the scientific studies explained, is powerful. Reasons why attention spans and the ability to focus are declining on an individual and social level. Well-argued and convincing book about an important problem. It's not just that I'm getting older. There are social factors similar to those why the quality of a lot of people's diet in developed countries is declining. It deserves all the stars. Johann Hari's "Stolen Focus" is an eye-opening read that explores the effects of technology on our focus and daily life. Hari explains in detail how social media firms keep us scrolling and consuming content despite our diminishing ability to concentrate and think critically. The book is full of insightful statements and thoughts that caused me to reflect on my relationship with various forms of modern technology. The book argues, among other things, that individuals alone can't solve this vast cultural problem. It contends that in order to genuinely regain our concentration, societal and structural changes are required. In the end, I was left with a sense of hopelessness after realizing that our culture has gotten so hectic that we scarcely have time to think, and the challenge of altering this reality seems like it would be practically impossible to accomplish. As Hari puts it, "What does it mean to be a society and culture so frantic that we don't have time to dream?" That question sums up the book's central concern. It makes me worry that we've lost the ability to let our brains roam, explore, and create because of our reliance on technology and this barrage of continual stimulation. As the author rightly points out, "as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that, in turn, made us less likely to read books." I've noticed this countless times while reading. More often than not, I don't spend substantial chunks of time reading because I'd rather check my phone or skim through things online. When I was younger, I would spend hours immersed in a book. "Stolen Focus" is a thought-provoking book that made me think about my connection with technology, social media, and focus. I've honestly begun to doubt the future of our society and whether we can ever hope to regain our concentration and capacity for deep thought. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"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. These forces have been so successful that our collapse in attention is behind many of the wider problems society faces. In Stolen Focus, Hari embarks on a thrilling journey, taking readers from veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD, to Silicon Valley dissidents who exposed social media companies' furtive attempts to hack our focus; from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly catastrophic way, to an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their workers' attention. In this urgent, deeply researched book, Hari shows that if we understand the twelve true causes of this crisis-from the collapse of sustained reading to the disruption of boredom to rising pollution-we, as individuals and as a society, can finally begin to solve it by staging an "attention rebellion." Finally, we have a way to get our focus back"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)153.733Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Cognition And Memory Perception Elements AttentionLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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So by and large the book was very good, but I did want to write this out. And just as an aside I am SO tired of NTs writing/talking ABOUT US instead of TO US or WITH US. Sigh. ( )