I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now. Welcome to part two of our conversation.

We all need to know that the focus has been stolen. First and foremost, you know, you're

shouting out here in the wilderness to let people know the focus has been stolen because

as you say in the beginning of this book, everybody's blaming themselves. We think it's

our fault that we can no longer pay attention.

So, I think we need to give people back that sense of power and say to them, you know,

we are not medieval peasants living at the court of King Zuckerberg begging for a few

little crumbs of attention from his table. We are the free citizens of democracies and we

own our own minds and we can take them back if we want to but we've got to understand

these 12 forces from the food we eat to the air we breathe to the technology we're currently

exposed to. We've got to understand these 12 forces and we've got to deal with them one

by one as individuals and collectively. If we do that, there's an incredible prize to

win because when you can focus, you become competent again. You can achieve your goals.

You begin to feel that you're present in your life again. That prize is incalculable.

It is really worth fighting for but we won't get what we don't fight for. If we just sit

back, these forces will invade us more and more and we will look back nostalgically on the

day when the average office worker focused for a whole three minutes on anyone's task,

right? We've got a choice now. We can carry on to generating and we're seeing what it

does to our children or we can choose to genuinely understand what's being done to us and begin

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