Stolen Focus, Chasing the Scream, Lost Connections 3 Books Collection Set By Johann Hari

by Johann Hari

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Stolen Focus, Chasing the Scream, Lost Connections 3 Books Collection Set By Johann

Stolen
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work.

Chasing the
What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari’s journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix.

Lost
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why?

Genres: Personal Development

1184 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist and playwright. He was a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Le Monde, El Mundo, the Melbourne Age, El Pais, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Irish Times, The Guardian, Ha'aretz, the Times Literary Supplement, Attitude (Britain's main gay magazine), the New Statesman and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines.

Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous". He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain, and by the Dutch magazine Winq as one of the twenty most influential gay people in the world.

After two scandals in 2011 involving plagiarism and malicious editing of Wikipedia pages, Hari was forced to return the prestigious Orwell prize he had won in 2008, and lost his position at The Independent.

Reviews

[Meredith Martelli]

Absolutely loved this book! I have the lockbox he lauds and use it weekly. One of the highlights for me was the part on schools. So interesting to learn that Danish schools run 9 am- 2 pm. Imagine all the extra time to for self care and just simply living better.

[Николай Поляков]

In this book, the author describes the problem of lost attention and how he dealt with it himself: he spent three months without a computer or phone, and he felt great. He then started thinking about why society as a whole is so distracted today, and he found many contributing factors:

1. Phones, devices, and software (operating systems, websites, social media) are designed to keep us on them as long as possible. This gives companies more opportunities to sell: the longer a person stays on a site, the more likely they are to buy something. It's the same reason shopping malls are built with deliberately confusing layouts.
2. The environment at home and in society. When there's violence in your neighborhood and abuse at home, it's hard to concentrate.
3. Diet.
4. Lack of sleep. People sleep less than they used to, while we need at least 8 hours. Most people never reach the REM (dreaming) phase, or it's very short.

Some of these problems can be tackled through personal effort, like installing special apps or setting limits for yourself. But the problem can only be solved systemically by governments and society. This has happened before, for example with lead and with sewage systems.

Overall, the message is a good one: we need to look beyond our own lives, to our families, our communities, our governments, and the world as a whole. But I felt that last third of the book is "for the all good , against the all bad"

[Mei]

This book has clarified what we are doing with our attention and focus. When I was working at the health care field, it’s expected you multi-task. Not only you need to read work emails, get rid of junk mails, you are on Team meeting, Zoom meeting and you carry the phone so anyone can call you. Then in Epic, the doctors can message anytime, any day to ask questions. That’s on top of doing your regular work. As a society, we have accustomed to this type of work setting. Now that I’m retired, I began to set up a trap to myself for spending too much time on iPhone and iPad. I’m going to set up goals like the author to spend more time doing other things that are important in life.
I truly enjoyed the section on education. I went to a rigorous Japanese high school where a lot of students are expected to apply to top universities. We studied during the day (six days per week), then some people would go to juku (night school) so they can apply for colleges. There are more students who are stressed out and some commit suicide. I think the solution is somewhere between Asian vs Finland educational systems. We want to raise children who can be self sufficient and think for themselves.

This book definitely is worth reading again from time to time.

[Leena Wahlberg]

Vuoden ympäristöasioiden kommentoijan ideologia pistää läpi useissa kohdissa päätyen lopun paatokseen: "Ilmastokriisi voidaan ratkaista vain, jos tarkkaavaisuuskriisi ratkaistaan." Jotenkin jopa Australian metsäpalot ja palovaroittimet onnistuttiin yhdistämään tarkkaavaisuusongelmaan!

Mutta on kirjassa paljon asiallistakin asiaa mm. ruokavaliosta, liikunnasta ja digilaitteista, joita voi soveltaa elämäänsä heti. Avainteesi on sulkea laitteensa ja elää vapaasti. Olla isäntä eikä orja.

Myös Suomi on mainittu hyvien oppimistulosten kohdassa, mikä on tietysti vanhentunutta tietoa näin keväällä 2023 uusimpien Pisatulosten tultua julki.

[Siniša Petrović]

Not many useful recommendations.

[Lauren Wong]

Excellent! Should be mandatory reading.

[Mary Bagley]

So good. Feel a little overwhelmed with the changes that need to be made BUT am inspired and excited to focus again.

[Amanda Lypka]

I think everyone should read this book. ADHD and anxiety are on the rise and our lifestyle and environment need an overhaul. There are no quick fixes here, but some real food for thought.