A major new book from internationally bestselling author Johann Hari that chronicles our attention crisis and what needs to happen for us to solve it
Johann Hari is a writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian and other newspapers. His TED talks have been viewed over 70 million times, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah to Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan. He lives in London. @johannhari101
A brilliant book about one of the most important topics of our
time
*Dr Rangan Chatterjee*
This mind-blowing book explains everything. Read it and be free
*Simon Amstell*
There's so much in this book . . . Unbelievable, juicy dynamite
that you have to read
*Chris Evans*
I think this book is exactly what the world needs right now . . . I
hope everybody buys the book. I promise you it will be worth your
time and certainly worth your focus
*Oprah Winfrey*
Johann Hari writes like a dream. He’s both lyricist and storyteller
– but also an indefatigable investigator of one of the world’s
greatest problems: the systematic destruction of our attention.
Read this book to save your mind
*Susan Cain*
I don’t know anyone thinking more deeply, or more holistically,
about the crisis of our collective attention than Johann Hari. And
this is a crisis that we must address if we are to meet any of the
other pressing emergencies we face as a species, whether ecological
or social. Which means that this book could not be more vital.
Please sit with it, and focus
*Naomi Klein*
A story that so many of us have felt needs to be told, but whose
cause and consequences are hard to capture and articulate without
guesswork, prejudice or ideology. Hari not only achieves this and
more, but he does so it with the pace, sparkle and energy of the
best kind of thriller writer. I can’t remember reading a book which
made me shout out “yes! That’s it!” quite so many times
*Stephen Fry*
A highly original and wide-ranging investigation into the causes of
our epidemic of flagging attention. Written with Hari’s trademark
incisive prose, indefatigable search for scientific evidence
vividly presented, and illustrated with telling anecdotes, Stolen
Focus is a bracing and necessary wake-up call to us all
*Gabor Maté M.D.*
A fascinating journey into the mind and how it is being manipulated
with devastating effects. Hari’s subject is something that is
affecting us all and this seminal work will be one of the defining
books of our era . . . Get off social media, switch off the TV, put
down your smart phone and do one thing – read this book’
*Dr Max Pemberton*
Stop whatever you’re doing and read this book. A deeply researched,
disturbing, and yet ultimately hopeful exploration of the primal
crisis of our time: our diminishing ability to focus on what really
matters
*Rutger Bregman, author of HUMANKIND*
If you want to get your attention and focus back, you need to read
this remarkable book . . . [Hari] has cracked the code of why we’re
in this crisis, and how to get out of it. We all need to hear this
message
*Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global*
An unbelievable storyteller . . . It might just change your
life
*Steven Bartlett*
Thanks to this brilliant book, I have got to know myself and my
fellow humans better. It educates and entertains you - the stories
will suck any reader in, and then slowly change your mind. Everyone
should read it. It has changed my habits - way beyond just putting
away my phone more. Stolen Focus is a really important book
*Philippa Perry*
In his unique voice, Johann Hari tackles the profound dangers
facing humanity from information technology and rings the alarm
bell for what all of us must do to protect ourselves, our children
and our democracies
*Hillary Clinton, former US Secretary of State*
An entirely necessary book, a miracle of clarity and depth, a
resonant, deeply researched warning followed by a truly inspiring
clarion-call to action. Read it and weep, then dry your eyes and
join in
*Emma Thompson*
A visionary, systemic, revolutionary and practical guide for
creating the new world. Through tireless research and genius
insight Johann Hari certainly snapped me to attention. A life
changing book
*V, author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES*
Provided a staggering insight into the misery occasioned by our
addiction to the idiocies of the web. If you have kids please read
it
*Spectator*
This is a book for those of us (all of us?), who feel we are
spending too much time staring at our phones — and are losing the
capacity to concentrate
*Financial Times*
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