Johann Hari explains why you can't focus: it's not a personal failing but the result of how smartphones and Silicon Valley are designed to hijack your attention. Sustained focus is essential to human achievement, and the crisis is systemic, not individual.
I read your book. Stolen Focus. We do have an attention deficit. In fact, it's more than that. It's a bloody crisis.
I could feel my.
Attention was getting.
Worse and I was just really angry with myself.
I could see it.
Happening to lots.
Of other people around me. It's everywhere. It's the air we breathe. Sick with guilt, the people at the heart of Silicon Valley feel.
I thought they were kidding, so I laughed.
They looked at me like I was deranged and backed out the room. It sounds almost like a conspiracy theory. This can't be right. This happened because of really big invasive forces. Why can't you discipline yourself more? Why don't you have better willp power?
I'm addicted to my phone. I looked at my screen time and I was shocked.
The smartphones were invented. They fucked me over.
I know something's really wrong and I don't know what it is.
Sustained focus and attention is at the heart of all human achievement. This is our superpower as a species. Right? We are the free citizens of democracies and we own.
Our own minds. One of the real.
Bombshells for me was.
