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	Podcast:		Saturday Morning
	Episode:		Johann Hari: why we can’t pay attention
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:34:00
	Publish Date:		2022-02-04 22:06:00
	Description:		In his new book, Stolen Focus, journalist and author Johann Hari investigates our inability to pay attention, and how it is worsening over time. According to recent studies, university students can now only focus on each task for 65 seconds. Meanwhile office workers manage around three minutes on average. While researching the book, Hari travelled the globe to interview leading experts on focus and attention and boiled his findings down to identify 12 key causes for the decline, which he reckons is one of humanity's biggest crises. Stolen Focus asks what this attention deficit really means for our ability to think deeply, and what can be done about it - both on an individual level and as a society. Hari's previous books include Lost Connections and Chasing the Scream.
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