A review by moominlove
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

4.0

Great book! I think I went into reading this with the wrong idea - I think I thought of it as a self-help book that would give me answers to solving my own attention problems. I thought the first couple chapters were preachy because of this but I was pleasantly surprised to find that wasn't the case at all. The author was refreshingly candid about his own struggles with attention and how we CAN make individual changes that will help, but if we don't come together as a society to address our collective attention problem our lives will be stripped away from us. The author kiiinda named that it's capitalism that's doing this in so many words but he wasn't explicitly anti-capitalist so