Chris Saenz | Book Review - Stolen Focus by Johann Hari @ChrisSaenz13 | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this video I give my opinions and talk about the book, Stolen Focus (Why You Can't Pay Attention - and How to Think Deeply Again) by Johann Hari.
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I highly recommend this book for everyone and especially for anyone who is interested in improving your focus, understanding what can rob us of our attention/focus, ADHD, effects of technology and social changes on children. This books is one I will not forget or be finished with for a long time to come. Although I must take back the library copy, I have lots of notes I took on this book and my "work" has just begun on tailoring my own program for improving my focus (from the menu of many things I learned in this book)! I can already sense change happening just from the education I got reading this book!
This is not a self-help book but you will find a lot of ideas and things you can try. The author gives us 12 "causes" (of impaired focus) to think about and to study. His style is to research very thoroughly and present many sides of each topic. I love that and you don't find that in all books or content these days.
I love that he didn't just focus on one contributing factor -- the usual being technology -- and yet he thoroughly covered that cause (of lack of focus) in the book. IN fact he covers everything from the loss of recess in school to our diets, the speed and stress levels, collapse of sustained reading, you name it! Giving us many angles in which to approach healing our attention.
I didn't feel compelled to get up and research everything mentioned because he did such a good job of covering each topic in a concise easy to digest way.
As someone diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 40, I was especially interested in his (Chapter 13) research on The Rise of ADHD and How We are Responding to It. My mind is still reeling from the "furniture rearrangement" my brain got after reading that chapter. You'll have to read it for yourself but for me it gave me hope that I have only ever scratched the surface of healing my focus/attention issues and this book is my launching pad for making serious and impactful changes -- still keeping with my refusal to use meds for it.
So, that's my opinion -- this was one of the most worthwhile books I've read in YEARS.
Thank you for watching!
Related Links:
The Social Dilemma: thesocialdilemma.com
Johann's TED Talk on Addiction: youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
The Fix Documentary: therokuchannel.roku.com/details/e4f717911acc588b95e3a61ccddf3c3e-1
Older video of my home library:
youtube.com/watch?v=i4OdQUKkO5o
Follow me on Instagram (I post about fountain pens, inks, cats, Texas and books): instagram.com/snowball7470
My pen email: chris@inkswatch.com
In this video I give my opinions and talk about the book, Stolen Focus (Why You Can't Pay Attention - and How to Think Deeply Again) by Johann Hari.
amazon.com/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deeply/dp/0593138511/ref=sr_1_1?crid=W7PT8B39T53S&keywords=Stolen+Focus&qid=1645809767&s=books&sprefix=stolen+focus%2Cstripbooks%2C592&sr=1-1
I highly recommend this book for everyone and especially for anyone who is interested in improving your focus, understanding what can rob us of our attention/focus, ADHD, effects of technology and social changes on children. This books is one I will not forget or be finished with for a long time to come. Although I must take back the library copy, I have lots of notes I took on this book and my "work" has just begun on tailoring my own program for improving my focus (from the menu of many things I learned in this book)! I can already sense change happening just from the education I got reading this book!
This is not a self-help book but you will find a lot of ideas and things you can try. The author gives us 12 "causes" (of impaired focus) to think about and to study. His style is to research very thoroughly and present many sides of each topic. I love that and you don't find that in all books or content these days.
I love that he didn't just focus on one contributing factor -- the usual being technology -- and yet he thoroughly covered that cause (of lack of focus) in the book. IN fact he covers everything from the loss of recess in school to our diets, the speed and stress levels, collapse of sustained reading, you name it! Giving us many angles in which to approach healing our attention.
I didn't feel compelled to get up and research everything mentioned because he did such a good job of covering each topic in a concise easy to digest way.
As someone diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 40, I was especially interested in his (Chapter 13) research on The Rise of ADHD and How We are Responding to It. My mind is still reeling from the "furniture rearrangement" my brain got after reading that chapter. You'll have to read it for yourself but for me it gave me hope that I have only ever scratched the surface of healing my focus/attention issues and this book is my launching pad for making serious and impactful changes -- still keeping with my refusal to use meds for it.
So, that's my opinion -- this was one of the most worthwhile books I've read in YEARS.
Thank you for watching!
Related Links:
The Social Dilemma: thesocialdilemma.com
Johann's TED Talk on Addiction: youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
The Fix Documentary: therokuchannel.roku.com/details/e4f717911acc588b95e3a61ccddf3c3e-1
Older video of my home library:
youtube.com/watch?v=i4OdQUKkO5o
Follow me on Instagram (I post about fountain pens, inks, cats, Texas and books): instagram.com/snowball7470
My pen email: chris@inkswatch.com
