Ep. 127 Johann Hari on Reclaiming Your Stolen Focus

Recovering From Reality

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari—bestselling author Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections—joins me on RFR for the second time to discuss his new book, Stolen Focus. In this phenomenal episode, we discuss the environmental shifts that have caused focus to deteriorate, how to improve your attention, and inspiring collective change.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.9	Once we've got a different business model, then they have to figure out,
0:43.7	well what is Alexis one? Oh, Alexis wants to meet up with her friends. Let's give her that button.
0:48.6	What is Alexis one? She wants to be able to pay attention. Okay, let's warn her every time she
0:52.9	gets a link, but if you click on it, it'll take 12, you think it'll take a few seconds,
0:57.2	it'll actually take 12 minutes before you get back to where you were before, right?
1:01.0	Once the incentives change, it can be changed from a model designed to hack and invade your attention
1:06.3	to a model designed to heal your intention. These changes are possible, absolutely possible,
1:12.3	and achievable, but we have to make these companies do it. We have to choose to value our attention
1:17.5	and focus, and we have to fight to take it back from the people who are invading it.
1:24.4	I was a quick clip from this week's episode with Johan Hari. You guys know what a big van I am of
1:30.1	this man and his work. You'll have to excuse my raspy voice. I think I'm losing it, and I'm not
1:37.0	sure why, hopefully I'm not getting COVID, but I love Johan so much. He's been on the podcast
1:43.7	before. It is one of my top performing episodes. If you haven't listened to that one, go back and
1:48.7	listen to it. We cover his book, Lost Connections, and that book honestly changed my life. It changed
1:55.8	the way that I view mental health in America and across the Western world. When he sent me an
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