If The Anxious Generation's forensic takedown of Big Tech felt like vindication, Stolen Focus turns that same fury on your own fragmented brain.
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- Turns outrage outward *then* inward brilliantly
- Neuroscience meets sociology—zero moralizing included
- Actionable tactics you can deploy tomorrow
- Validates your screen-fatigue w/ hard data
If Haidt's takedown of Big Tech's assault on developing brains felt like vindication, Hari extends that same forensic rigor to your own hijacked attention span. This is the adult companion to The Anxious Generation—a data-drenched exposé on how algorithms engineered to fragment focus didn't stop at childhood, blending neuroscience and cultural critique to name the forces stealing your capacity for deep thought.
Where Haidt handed you phone-free school blueprints, Hari arms you with strategies to reclaim sustained thinking in a world designed for distraction. It's the same intellectual swagger, now aimed at surveillance capitalism's stranglehold on mental resilience.
Read this if you're ready to dismantle the attention economy with the same fury you brought to protecting kids.
What Readers Are Saying
"I really did like this book, and I especially like that the author takes pains to point out that issues with distraction and lack of focus aren’t personal failings..." — Erin, Goodreads
"I loved most of the book, there's been quite some good advice I've been able to use to start healing my focus and I found the sections on how these sites are intentionally made to worsen our attention problems very enlightening." — Johan Agstam, Goodreads
"Johann is an amazing writer, and I can breeze through just about any book he puts out there because his style is perfection. This book is fantastic, and I think everyone should read it." — Chris Boutté, Goodreads
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