Welcome back everyone. It's the brain kill me chill 186 408 7669. It's time to

bring in my next guest John Hariri, Joanne. Joanne Hariri, he joins us now to talk

about focus and focusing on what needs to be what needs to be done. Joanne,

welcome. You said my name better than most people

Brian. It's actually Johan Harry. The book is called Stola Focus, but don't

worry. I once waited for six hours with a broken arm and an emergency room

because they were calling for Joanne Harry to come forward. So you did it better

than most people. So what you do is my apologies. So what you do is you focus

on focus. And what did you discover about this technological age when it

comes to focusing? Yeah, you're so right. I mean, I wrote this book because I

noticed that with each year that passed, things that required deep focus like

reading a book, watching a long movie, were getting for me more and more like

running up a down escalator. You know what I mean? I could still do them, but

they were getting harder and harder. And I noticed this is happening to almost

all of us. The average American office worker now focuses on any one task for

only three minutes. For every one child who was identified with serious

attention problems, when I was seven years old, there's now a hundred children

who identified with that problem. So I wanted to figure out what's happening

to us, right? What's going on? So I use my training at Cambridge University to

travel all over the world from Miami to Moscow to Melbourne to introduce 200

of the leading experts on attention of focus and really deeply into their

science. And what I learned is there's scientific evidence to 12 factors that

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