Why You Need to Find Connection in the Modern World

The Wellness Scoop

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We’re joined by Johann Hari, a writer and journalist, who travelled all over the world to interview and learn from the leading scientists investigating why we’re losing focus to what matters and what the impact of chronic distraction is, and also to those developing the solutions. We discuss: Why we’re living in an attention crisis and why willpower isn’t the problem Why we need to stop task switching The impact of being chronically distracted on our brain power Why sleep and diet are critical components of reclaiming focus Why restoring childhood is so important The individual and collective changes for solving our attention crisis How to get into a flow state to find deep focus Why stress undermines our ability to focus Johann Hari: ‘Stolen Focus’ https://stolenfocusbook.com https://johannhari.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:31.6	Hi, I'm Ella Mills, the founder of Deliciously Ella and this is our podcast, Delicious Ways to Feel
1:38.0	Better. Each episode explores various aspects of our mental and our physical health to help you
1:44.0	make small, simple changes to your life to feel both happier and healthier. So today we're looking
1:50.7	at focus and our ability to feel more connected, more present, more aware and by proxy happier.
1:58.7	But we recorded this episode a few weeks ago and I've been really umming and
2:03.3	r-ing about whether or not continuing on the podcast on these sorts of themes, feels trivial
2:10.2	and perhaps not exactly the right thing to do with what feels like a unfolding and really
2:17.3	terrifying crisis that's happening in Ukraine with the absolutely brutal invasion by Russia
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