Stolen focus why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. Here, the author offers an examination of why this is happening - and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, the author was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, fro...
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Crown,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Walking in Memphis
- Cause one : the increase in speed, switching, and filtering
- Cause two : the crippling of our flow states
- Cause three : the rise of physical and mental exhaustion
- Cause four : the collapse of sustained reading
- Cause five : the disruption of mind-wandering
- Cause six : the rise of technology that can track and manipulate you (part one)
- Cause six : the rise of technology that can track and manipulate you (part two)
- Cause seven : the rise of cruel optimism
- The first glimpses of the deeper solution
- Cause eight : the surge in stress and how it is triggering vigilance
- The places that figured out how to reverse the surge in speed and exhaustion
- Causes nine and ten : our deteriorating diets and rising pollution
- Cause eleven : the rise of ADHD and how we are responding to it
- Cause twelve : the confinement of our children, both physically and psychologically
- Conclusion : attention rebellion.
