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Why You Can’t Pay Attention

85 mins watch time

Posted January 2022

Wellbeing, Inspirational

Johann Hari has met the leading experts in the world on attention – and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. It is not. This has been done to all of us – by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. But crucially, he has discovered how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.