How To Fix Your Focus & Stop Procrastinating: Johann Hari

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari is a journalist and author of Lost Connections, a book which changed the way I think about depression and mental health. His new book, Stolen Focus, is about what people can do in order to improve their focus, and about what we can all do to stop our attention being robbed in a world of increasing distractions. Johann travels thousands of miles all over the world in order to complete his research, he’s spoken to experts on every continent and he’s come in to us about what he’s learnt on his journey. What Johann offers is not just practical advice for us all to take to improve our focus, but also what we can all do to change the way we interact with tech companies in order to make sure it never gets robbed again. Follow Johann: Twitter - https://twitter.com/johannhari101 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johann.hari Johann’s book - https://amzn.eu/d/bJzKyff Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're not being present in your life, you're not being present at all.
0:03.0	Johann Hari, he's been on a journey to understand attention and why we seem to have so little of it these days.
0:10.7	I know something's really wrong, but I don't know what it is and that's when I
0:14.7	thought are we having an attention and focus crisis if we are why is it happening and
0:18.6	most importantly what can we do to get our brains back if you've got all these smart
0:22.4	engineers and they've got one incentive,
0:24.4	how do I take Stephen's attention the absolute most I can? We need an attention movement to reclaim
0:30.2	our minds. If our goal is as a country to be a country that's innovative, my God
0:34.5	country people who can think is going to be innovative. Country of
0:37.4	adult people flicking between WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Tik-Toc ain't going to be a
0:41.5	place full of innovation. Do you want your child to be able to focus? Do you want your going to be a place full of innovation.
0:43.0	Do you want your child to be able to focus?
0:45.0	Do you want your child to be able to read books?
0:47.0	Do you want your child to be able to think deeply?
0:49.0	Of course you do.
0:50.0	Okay, we've got to fix the society and culture to give them those things and we absolutely can change them.
0:57.0	Today, one of my favorite ever guests on this podcast returns, and they return with a completely
1:10.4	different conversation for you.
1:12.8	Johann Hari, what he wrote about mental health
1:16.3	and the causes of depression and anxiety
1:18.6	and meaningful connection changed my life.
1:21.7	It's probably the number one book I recommend and you've heard me
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