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Homo Sapiens

169: Are LGBTQ+ people in an attention crisis? with Johann Hari | Part 1

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ever watched TV while also scrolling through your phone? Well author & hit TED talker Johann Hari has written a book with mind-blowing discoveries about why big tech companies make it their business to keep us scrolling 😵‍💫 and it’s a fascinating read. Johan’s clever perspective on life has a knack of making you feel like you’ve been sleep walking through it until he wakes you up with another powerful take on it all - first it was addiction, then it was depression, and now he’s turned his incredible mind to Attention. He came by for a good old yarn about his new book ‘Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, what that means for LGBTQ+ people, and we find out what crazy thing happened to a Picasso painting in Vegas 😵


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0:00.0

Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden, it feels lovely and sunny, I feel like I'm on holiday

0:04.5

for Monest, which is very apt because I've got some more holiday reading for you.

0:09.6

This episode of Homo sapient is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid from Tufael Ahmed, author

0:14.8

of the acclaimed novel This Way Out. Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating

0:19.8

life after their mother's death. They're all living separate lives trying to live

0:23.8

up to their last promises they each made to their mother.

0:27.2

Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted spotlight on the family and forces the siblings

0:31.8

back into each other's lives. Three siblings, three promises, three lifetimes of saying

0:36.8

all the wrong things. Gosh, it feels familiar. I'll leave it at that for now, it's a really

0:41.8

good read. The novel is available at Amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. I love it when

0:48.4

they do a little URL for us. Those with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can read at no additional

0:53.4

extra cost. That's www.amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. Better Left Unsaid is available

0:59.5

20th September in e-book, paperbook and audiobook editions. Mmm, get involved.

1:05.1

Do you know what I've just done? I've done my favorite thing in the world. I have just

1:20.6

bought a table on eBay. I managed to get it for 20 pounds because I'm a clever sausage

1:27.9

like that, but it's somewhere not near my house. So what I've done is I've put it on shiply.com.

1:36.4

This sounds like an advert list and it's not as the actual podcast happening. It's just

1:40.8

this is the stuff I like to talk about. So Northampton shows where this table is. I live

1:45.0

in Gloucestershire. So what you do is you go on shiply.com. You say where your item is and

1:50.2

where it needs to go and people bid to take your item. I know I've spoken about this before

1:54.2

on the podcast. So lots of people like driving up and down the country anyway delivering

1:57.7

things to different places. They say, hey, well, I'm driving from Northampton,

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