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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus

Modern Wisdom

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Is Your Attention Ain't What It Used to Be?

Johan hary's new book is about the mystery of attention. The author spent years trying to work out why his own was getting worse. He found scientific evidence for t 12 factors that can boost or degrade your attention. And we are in a real and acute attention crisis, which is actually on course to get even worse unless we deal with these deep, underlying causes of the crisis.

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