Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention
The Imperfects
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The Importance of Absence
"I was so inspired by the first three chapters that I left every device that I owned at home and I went away. And to be totally honest with you, I wasn't that much better," he says. "It's almost like his mind was kind of whirring at the speed of Snapchat where nothing still or serious could touch him." 'He dropped out of school when he was 15,' writes author Johan Nylander about his God son Adam who became obsessed with Elvis Presley as a child. "'His life was just a kind of blur of WhatsApp, Snapchat, YouTube, porn,'" adds Mr Nylander.
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