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Stolen Focus
by Johann Hari
Summary
Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus is a broad, readable map of why attention feels harder than it used to. The book looks beyond individual willpower to sleep, stress, food, schools, surveillance capitalism, platform design, speed and environmental pressure. It is not the only book readers should use for attention, but it is valuable because it widens the frame: focus is not just a personal virtue. It is shaped by systems around us.
“Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen.”
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It appears in the social-media and doomscrolling clusters because it helps readers stop treating lost focus as a private moral failure and start seeing the incentives around their attention.
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