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Johann Hari Unboxing | Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention

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How Fast Is Our Attention Span Getting Worse in Today's Society?

When Johan's godson was nine, he developed an intense obsession with Elvis Presley. He dropped out of school when he was 15 and spent almost every waking moment alternating between his iPhone and his iPad in this kind of blur,. When nothing's still serious, could touch him. And one day we were sitting on my sofa over there... I've been trying to talk to him all day and just I couldn't get any traction with him. It seems like to me that it is getting staggeringly worse; our kids' attention span is dwindling ever so thinly up to the point where they struggle to really focus at all. The way I opened the book is by talking about my godson

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