Stolen Focus

Attention has become harder to hold, and Johann Hari treats that as a problem with causes outside the individual rather than a personal failing. Stolen Focus reports from interviews with researchers across several countries, examining how technology design, working hours, diet, pollution, stress and schooling each press on concentration. Hari connects these findings to his own attempt to step away from constant connection, and closes by arguing for collective changes rather than leaving readers with willpower alone as the remedy. Notable features: • Reported nonfiction on the decline of sustained attention, by Johann Hari • Interviews with researchers across psychology, technology and public health • Looks at structural causes alongside individual habits • Bloomsbury English edition Suited to readers of psychology, technology criticism and current affairs, and stocked by Boipoka.