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Stolen Focus

Author : Johann Hari
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 059313852X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Stolen Focus written by Johann Hari and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back. “The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again “Read this book to save your mind.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers’ productivity. Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society—if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

Distracted

Author : Terri R. Kurtzberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Distracted written by Terri R. Kurtzberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the benefits and negative consequences of our increased connectivity at school, at work, and at home? Is being constantly distracted now a worldwide problem? This book examines how new technologies and social pressures have changed the way we use our attention, and the extent to which they drive us to distraction, by interpreting hundreds of scientific studies from the literatures in cognitive and social psychology, sociology, communication, management, and decision making. While distraction is ever-present in daily life, staying connected in an efficient way is the goal for one and all. To accomplish that, some amount of fine-tuning of typical interactions with technology is in order. Nearly everyone recognizes the addictive nature of constant connectivity—and its destructive effect on productivity and quality of work. But the availability of technology also promotes better engagement, control, and flexibility in both professional and personal settings. An in-depth analysis of these tradeoffs can lead to smarter choices about when and how to be connected throughout the day and across settings. The ultimate objective is to have technology enhance our lives without serving as a source of constant distraction. Distracted: Staying Connected without Losing Focus explains the nuances of what this addiction stems from—considering both societal and technological factors—and identifies both the invaluable opportunities and the counterproductive consequences of living in our technology-enabled, instant-access-to-everything world. The chapters examine a wide swath of scientific research to expose how technology use affects our attention and the extent to which it causes distraction. Authors Terri Kurtzberg and Jennifer Gibbs apply the science of human attention to reveal how specific areas of our lives are significantly changed with the advent of "continuous connectedness," including in the workplace, in personal relationships, in childhood development, and with regard to education and learning. Readers will clearly understand why multitasking fails us, what the consequences are—to ourselves and those around us—of being focused on a screen for much of the day, and how each of us can adjust our use of technology in order to improve our lives.

Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633696596
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of achieving focus goes well beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment. Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break the cycle of distraction. This volume includes the work of: Daniel Goleman Heidi Grant Amy Jen Su Rasmus Hougaard HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

The Art of Concentration

Author : Harriet Griffey
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1905744900
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Concentration written by Harriet Griffey and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all overwhelmed with technological input in our daily lives – whether it is our mobile phone ringing, our Blackberry bleeping or emails that pour in endlessly – we are all becoming hyperstimulated and unable to switch on (concentrate) or switch off (relax) because we’re all on permanent standby. As a result, we have lost the art of concentrating properly. Luckily, this cutting edge personal development book is here to help readers navigate their way through the deluge and provides the tools we need to learn how to concentrate and focus. Rooted in scientific fact and research, it includes a detailed look at how your brain works, what inhibits brain function and concentration and covers things such as lack of down-time, distraction, poor lifestyle habits and stress. Featuring techniques and exercises to help improve concentration, it is guaranteed to help us all improve the way we work and the way we live our lives.

Why You Can't Focus

Author : John Strout
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Why You Can't Focus written by John Strout and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you FOCUS? Continue reading! Our capacity to concentrate has deteriorated. Your mind wanders or you start scrolling through your phone every time you sit down to work. Does this ring a bell? Most people have problems concentrating at times. However, if this happens frequently, you may question why you can't stay focused. While the overuse of technology rightly gets a lot of the blame, it's definitely not the only factor depleting your potential to focus. Our modern lifestyle, in all kinds of ways, is not conducive to keeping your mind on just one thing. Many factors, such as daily behaviors, can have an impact on your capacity to concentrate. A health problem could be the root of the problem in some circumstances. We will be more productive if we can concentrate better. It will make life easier and less stressful. To accomplish this adjustment, we must first consider what we are doing to undermine our own focus, and then take actions to change our behavior in order to improve our odds of concentrating better. In this book Why You Can't Focus, JOHN STROUT explains in simple terms: Reasons why we are unable to concentrate other than the internet Several signs that shows you are losing focus in your activities. Effective strategies to reclaim your attention and live a more orderly life in an unordered society This book will help you restore your focus. Scroll to the top of the page and click Click the BUY NOW button

Focus 101

Author : Alley Blackwell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530295708
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Focus 101 written by Alley Blackwell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are feeling that you have begun to put of tasks or jobs because you are losing focus it is better you start working on it immediately. By the looks of it, it may sound like tedious, tough task, but in reality it is an upfront process which can be accomplished by a simple changes applied in behavioral patterns. It might seem like a never ending process but it is until you get there. Once you take the first step, the next will follow simultaneously and before you know it, you might have just slayed your habit of losing focus unnecessarily. In the upcoming sections of the books you will get come across a detailed study of understanding the concept of loss of focus and how you can work it so that you can walk ahead towards a better tomorrow.

Master Focus

Author : Eddie Zhao
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983941856
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Master Focus written by Eddie Zhao and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking control of where you put your focus can dramatically increase your quality of life. In a world full of distractions, the ability to concentrate on anything you do puts you ahead of most people. Focusing your attention on whatever you're working on will save you huge amounts of time. The purpose of this book is to help you create an ability to focus by developing habits, strategies, and a lifestyle to compliment it. In addition to all of this, you'll also receive a daily checklist to help you build and secure helpful habits.

Reclaiming Your Focus

Author : Rosemary Mendoza
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Your Focus written by Rosemary Mendoza and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever read the same chapter multiple times and failed to comprehend a single word? Or have you ever been in a classroom with the teacher facing you, but you were so lost in your own thoughts that you missed everything they said? Or did you become distracted while in a meeting thinking about all the things you still had to do? Focus is what is lacking if you've ever been in a situation when you were physically present but mentally absent. The ability to direct your attention to a certain task and be entirely absorbed in it without interruptions is known as the cognitive skill of focus. Being too focused can also be harmful, even though being too unfocused may be a problem. Being so narrowly concentrated that you lose awareness of everything else and develop tunnel vision might be hazardous. In this book, Rosemary Mendoza highlighted the ways in which we might improve our capacity for concentration and attention as well as learn to manage distractions. In this book, you will find: What the Focused Mind entails Why you can't focus The focusing power of meditation How to reclaim your focus? When to seek for help. GET YOUR COPY TODAY

Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309439981
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday communication, social activities, educational and professional pursuits, the care of others, and the maintenance of personal health, independence, and mobility. Functioning eyes and vision system can reduce an adult's risk of chronic health conditions, death, falls and injuries, social isolation, depression, and other psychological problems. In children, properly maintained eye and vision health contributes to a child's social development, academic achievement, and better health across the lifespan. The public generally recognizes its reliance on sight and fears its loss, but emphasis on eye and vision health, in general, has not been integrated into daily life to the same extent as other health promotion activities, such as teeth brushing; hand washing; physical and mental exercise; and various injury prevention behaviors. A larger population health approach is needed to engage a wide range of stakeholders in coordinated efforts that can sustain the scope of behavior change. The shaping of socioeconomic environments can eventually lead to new social norms that promote eye and vision health. Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow proposes a new population-centered framework to guide action and coordination among various, and sometimes competing, stakeholders in pursuit of improved eye and vision health and health equity in the United States. Building on the momentum of previous public health efforts, this report also introduces a model for action that highlights different levels of prevention activities across a range of stakeholders and provides specific examples of how population health strategies can be translated into cohesive areas for action at federal, state, and local levels.

Peak Mind

Author : Amishi P. Jha
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062992163
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Peak Mind written by Amishi P. Jha and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** STOP FOR A MOMENT. Are you here right now? Is your focus on this page? Or is it roaming elsewhere, to the past or future, to a worry, to your to-do list, or to your phone? Whether you’re simply browsing, talking to friends, or trying to stay focused in an important meeting, you can’t seem to manage to hang on to your attention. No matter how hard you try, you’re somewhere else. The consequence is that you miss out on 50 percent of your life—including the most important moments. The good news: There’s nothing wrong with you—your brain isn’t broken. The human brain was built to be distractible. The even better news: You can train your brain to pay attention more effectively. Stay with me a little longer and soon you will be able to: Focus without all the struggle. Take back your attention from the pull of distraction. And function at your peak, for all that truly matters in your life.

Hold On to Your Kids

Author : Gordon Neufeld
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307375498
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Hold On to Your Kids written by Gordon Neufeld and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children. Dr. Neufeld has dubbed this phenomenon peer orientation, which refers to the tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction: for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; its effects are painfully evident in the context of teenage gangs and criminal activity, in tragedies such as in Littleton, Colorado; Tabor, Alberta and Victoria, B.C. It is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident -- as do the solutions. Hold On to Your Kids will restore parenting to its natural intuitive basis and the parent-child relationship to its rightful preeminence. The concepts, principles and practical advice contained in Hold On to Your Kids will empower parents to satisfy their children’s inborn need to find direction by turning towards a source of authority, contact and warmth. Something has changed. One can sense it, one can feel it, just not find the words for it. Children are not quite the same as we remember being. They seem less likely to take their cues from adults, less inclined to please those in charge, less afraid of getting into trouble. Parenting, too, seems to have changed. Our parents seemed more confident, more certain of themselves and had more impact on us, for better or for worse. For many, parenting does not feel natural. Adults through the ages have complained about children being less respectful of their elders and more difficult to manage than preceding generations, but could it be that this time it is for real? -- from Hold On to Your Kids

Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309671035
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of community-dwelling Americans aged 65 and older are considered to be socially isolated, and a significant proportion of adults in the United States report feeling lonely. People who are 50 years of age or older are more likely to experience many of the risk factors that can cause or exacerbate social isolation or loneliness, such as living alone, the loss of family or friends, chronic illness, and sensory impairments. Over a life course, social isolation and loneliness may be episodic or chronic, depending upon an individual's circumstances and perceptions. A substantial body of evidence demonstrates that social isolation presents a major risk for premature mortality, comparable to other risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, or obesity. As older adults are particularly high-volume and high-frequency users of the health care system, there is an opportunity for health care professionals to identify, prevent, and mitigate the adverse health impacts of social isolation and loneliness in older adults. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults summarizes the evidence base and explores how social isolation and loneliness affect health and quality of life in adults aged 50 and older, particularly among low income, underserved, and vulnerable populations. This report makes recommendations specifically for clinical settings of health care to identify those who suffer the resultant negative health impacts of social isolation and loneliness and target interventions to improve their social conditions. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults considers clinical tools and methodologies, better education and training for the health care workforce, and dissemination and implementation that will be important for translating research into practice, especially as the evidence base for effective interventions continues to flourish.

Losing Brave

Author : Bailee Madison
Publisher : Blink
ISBN 13 : 0310760682
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Losing Brave written by Bailee Madison and published by Blink. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payton Brave's twin sister, Dylan, has been missing for more than a year. So has Payton's memory. Amid the turmoil of her sister’s disappearance, Payton feels lost as the one left behind. Her mental state wrought and reckless, she tumbles from the graces of popularity to the outskirts of high school society, where she attracts a rag-tag group of friends—and a troubling romance with her sister’s boyfriend, Cole. Though Payton remembers nothing of the day Dylan disappeared, she must pry into her own mind when another missing girl’s body is recovered from a nearby lake, the victim’s features eerily similar to Dylan’s. The further Payton presses into the recesses of her memory, the more danger surrounds her. The darkness around her sister’s disappearance grows and the truth becomes more and more unbearable. What she finds might just cost Payton her life. Losing Brave: Is written by award-winning actress Bailee Madison (Once Upon a Time, Bridge to Terabithia) and Reader’s Choice Award Finalist Stefne Miller Features forbidden romance, intense action, and high-stakes sacrifice

Thriving With ADHD Workbook

Author : Gerald Paul Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781801142588
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Thriving With ADHD Workbook written by Gerald Paul Clifford and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know how to deal with your ADHD symptoms, then keep reading... What are the strategies that ADHD patients use to cope with their symptoms? If you want to know the answer to this question too, then I would say you have to the right place because this book has several such strategies and more.Living with ADHD means facing exhausting problems on a daily basis, but for every problem, there is a solution. This book will show you ways in which you can enhance your concentration power and stay focused on the task at hand. Establishing healthier habits and doing them on a regular basis can be really challenging in ADHD patients, but it is not impossible. All you need is a game plan, and by the time you reach the end of this book, you will have one. The book includes a variety of proven methods to manage ADHD symptoms naturally. You will also learn how you can sleep well and steer clear of stress. Conventional medication is a very important part of the treatment process, but there is a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of supplements that you can take, foods that you can eat, and exercises that you can do to manage the symptoms, and you will learn about all that in this book. By following some simple steps, you can turn your life around. Some of the major things that you are going to learn in this book are as follows - How to understand that you have ADHD? How to minimize the impact of the symptoms on your life? Steps to take to make your life more organized and enhance your memory skills And more... Even if you think there is nothing that can help you deal with your symptoms, don't leave hope. Try out the strategies mentioned in this book, and I am sure that you will see improvement. From time management strategies to organization tips, this book is a comprehensive guide to living with ADHD. Coach your ADHD brain how not to procrastinate and control its impulsive nature. If you want to get your life in order and increase your productivity, taking the first step is all you have to do.

Deep Work

Author : Cal Newport
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455586668
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Deep Work written by Cal Newport and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2O16 PICK IN BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER A BUSINESS BOOK OF THE WEEK AT 800-CEO-READ Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.

Lost Focus

Author : Samuel Spectre
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Lost Focus written by Samuel Spectre and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers in the United States are only able to focus on a single activity for sixty-five seconds at a time, while office workers have an average attention span of only three minutes. I found that constantly going from one device to another and from one tab to another was a draining and dismal way to live my life, just like a large number of other people do. I attempted a variety of different methods of self-improvement, including going without his phone for a period of three months, but nothing seemed to help. As a result, I embarked on an incredible journey across the globe to conduct interviews with the foremost authorities on human attention. Through these conversations, I learned that everything we believe we know about this dilemma is incorrect. We believe that our inability to concentrate is due to a lack of personal determination and that the problem lies with our technology. Even more unsettling is the reality, which is that our attention has been diverted by potent forces from the outside world, which has made us especially susceptible to the attention-grabbing tactics of businesses that are driven solely by the desire to increase their profits. I have discovered that there are twelve fundamental reasons for this crisis, ranging from the decline of mind-wandering to the rising pollution; all of these reasons have contributed to a loss of attention on the part of some of us. I introduce readers to Silicon Valley rebels who have learned to hack human attention as well as veterinarians who diagnose pets with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in lost concentration. I investigates a slum in Rio de Janeiro called a favela, where the residents have collectively lost their focus in a peculiarly bizarre manner, as well as a workplace in New Zealand that has developed a surprising method to increase the productivity of its employees. The most important thing I took away from this experience was how we, as people and as a community, can recapture our focus if we are willing to fight for it. lost Focus will revolutionize the conversation about attention and show us, at long last, how to reclaim it for ourselves.

The Divided Ground

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428427
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Divided Ground written by Alan Taylor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North America. As one served American expansion by promoting Indian dispossession and religious conversion, and the other struggled to defend and strengthen Indian territories, the two friends became bitter enemies. Their battle over control of the Indian borderland, that divided ground between the British Empire and the nascent United States, would come to define nationhood in North America. Taylor tells a fascinating story of the far-reaching effects of the American Revolution and the struggle of American Indians to preserve a land of their own.