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

Jan 6, 2022

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How Can We Get Floe States?

01:24

The Balance Between Personal Responsibility and Systemic Change

03:07

What Is Attention and How Does It Work?

04:09

What's the Message in a Book?

00:41

Introduction

5min

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

3min

Will You Take Me One Day to Graceland?

3min

The Solution Is to Get Away From Them

5min

Is Your Godson a Tick Tocker?

4min

What Is Attention and How Does It Work?

4min

Is There a Trickle Down Effect With Task Switching?

2min

You Can Only Think About One Thing at a Time

4min

Why We're Living in a Perfect Storm of Cognitive Degradation

6min

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I'm Living in a Suboptimal Attentional Environment, Right?

3min

11.

The Best People on the Planet Are Not the Ones That Can Forage for Information

4min

12.

I Love to Draw and Paint, but I Don't Know My Grandma

4min

13.

The Relationship Between Attention and Well Being

5min

14.

How Do We Get Into Flow State?

5min

15.

How to Get Into Flow in a Constrained Environment

3min

16.

The Medium Is the Message, Right?

6min

17.

What's the Prize for Playing Stunny Games?

5min

18.

What's the Second Surge of Energy?

2min

19.

How Do You Know When It's Dark?

4min

20.

The Number One Reason for Our Loss of Attention Is Technology, Right?

3min

21.

Lead Exposure and Violence in the Sixties

5min

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Social Media

3min

23.

You're Igniting My Inner Er Activist

3min

24.

The Distaste of Social Media Companies and Technology at Large

2min

25.

How to Build Habit Forming Products

3min

26.

How to Use Persuasive Technology in the 21st Century

2min

27.

Anger and Conspiracy Theories

3min

28.

The Thing That Keeps Us Alive

4min

29.

How to Regain Your Attention

4min

30.

Children's Attention Problems - The Top 3 Things I Would Recommend

2min

31.

Parents, I'm a Strong Opponent to Ae Authoritarian Dictatorships

2min

32.

Antitec or Protec?

2min

33.

We're in a Runy Strike

2min

34.

The Slavery Focus Book Review - Why You Can't Pay Attention

3min

Johann Hari is a writer & a journalist.

You probably struggle to focus on the task you're doing. You probably wish that you could pay attention for longer and that you were less easily distracted. Why is this such a common problem? Is this a byproduct of the modern era? Technology? Social Media? Johann has travelled the world trying to work out what is going on.

Expect to learn how your attention system works, whether attention loss is reversible, whether modern life is going to further decrease our productivity, the relationship between sleep and focus, what impact stress and diet has, whether phone addiction is to blame, the single biggest influence Johann found which no one is talking about, the strategies which help to regain focus and much more...

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