HOW DO WE GET OUR BRAINS BACK?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Author Johann Hari joins Thom to consider why our attention span continues to collapse- or was it stolen? Plus - do we really want our appliances to spy on us?
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| 0:46.2 | So have you noticed that you're a little distracted and now the hard time focusing and things just |
| 0:52.8 | seem to be flying all over the place and I totally get that. |
| 0:57.2 | By the way, let's do a deep dive over the next 30 minutes here with our conversations with |
| 1:02.4 | great minds today. Johan Hari is on the line with this. He's the author of a new book called |
| 1:06.9 | Stolen Focus. Why you can't pay attention and how to think deeply again. |
| 1:11.9 | Johan is a journalist. He's the author of three books. This is his most recent. |
| 1:15.7 | He's also studied social and political science at King's College Cambridge. |
| 1:19.4 | And graduate of the double first stolen focus book.com is the website. |
| 1:23.6 | Johan Hari 101 is his Twitter handle. |
| 1:26.8 | Johan, welcome back to the program. It's been a while since we talked. |
| 1:29.9 | Tell us what started you down this path of this book? |
| 1:34.6 | Well, I noticed that with each year that passed, things that required deep focus, like reading a |
| 1:40.0 | book, having deep conversations, watching long movies, we're getting more and more for me, |
| 1:44.9 | like running up a down escalator. You know what I mean? I could still do them, |
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