Here’s why you can’t focus / Joe De Sena and Johann Hari
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
“Stolen Focus - Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again,” by Johann Hari examines the internal and external causes of our shrinking ability to focus. He joins Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan, to talk about his research. You’ll learn how your ability to focus is under attack and what you can do about it.
Buy “Stolen Focus” https://amzn.to/3s8oYjU
More about the book and research https://stolenfocusbook.com/
More about Johann Hari https://johannhari.com
Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”
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Host: Joe De Sena
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| 0:00.0 | A typical American college student now focuses for only 65 seconds. |
| 0:05.0 | A different study by Professor Larry Rosen, they just observed college students when they're focusing, |
| 0:11.0 | and they found they couldn't focus for more than a few minutes without breaking away. |
| 0:14.5 | Now we can all see why that's a really big problem. |
| 0:17.5 | So I write a lot in the book about why this has happened to our kids and what we can do about it. |
| 0:21.9 | And one of the causes is exactly what you say. We have |
| 0:25.3 | enormously deprived our children of exercise. Only 73% of elementary schools have any form of recess for example. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descena, |
| 0:40.0 | founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:44.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:49.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, |
| 0:52.0 | we will teach you here on a Spartan |
| 0:53.8 | up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:57.4 | Has your focus been stolen? |
| 0:59.2 | Johann Hari, author of stolen focus, talks to Joe DeSena about the reasons you and the people around you may be having trouble with your focus and what you can do about it. |
| 1:09.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Usana Health Sciences, driven to innovate |
| 1:13.8 | and advance the science of nutrition. Visit usana.com to learn more about |
| 1:17.9 | their incredible selection of nutritional supplements and healthy lifestyle products. |
| 1:22.0 | Go to the center here, CEO and founder of Spartan and the Spartan Up podcast where we attempt, no actually we do, rip you off the couch, give you a motivation, a little kick in the ass. |
| 1:33.1 | I've got Johann Hari on here. |
| 1:35.9 | He's going to teach us how to focus. |
| 1:38.6 | You got a new book. |
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