Zudem willigen Sie mit Abonnieren des Newsletters ein, dass Ihre Daten fr Newslettertracking und zu kanalbergreifenden Werbezwecken von Werbepartnern genutzt werden, um Ihnen Empfehlungen und Werbung auszuspielen. When we got to the jungle room Elviss favourite place in the mansion the iPad was chattering away when a middle-aged man standing next to me turned to say something to his wife. You promised not to use it, I said. Calm. Prof Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explained one to me. The first step it requires is a shift in our consciousness. The science was explained to ordinary people. It was to yell: Give me that phone! I think that given this uncertainty, we cant wait for perfect evidence. Lots of things were wrong with the politics of the 80s. To do that, I started to think a lot about an area of psychology I had learned about years before the science of flow states. He had dropped out of school when he was 15, and he spent almost all his waking hours alternating blankly between screens a blur of YouTube, WhatsApp and porn. Stolen Focus is a really important book., In his unique voice, Johann Hari tackles the profound dangers facing humanity from information technology and rings the alarm bell for what all of us must do to protect ourselves, our children and our democracies., An entirely necessary book, a miracle of clarity and depth, a resonant, deeply researched warning followed by a truly inspiring clarion-call to action. When I couldnt focus and pay attention, I would blame myself. We have to invent that.. I turned to Adam, ready to laugh about it all but he was in a corner, holding his phone under his jacket, flicking through Snapchat. So youre three years younger than me. One is individual attention. Normally I follow the news every hour or so, getting a drip-feed of anxiety-provoking facts and trying to smush them together into some kind of sense. This is called the switch-cost effect. Everything radically slowed down. Will Apples image-scan plan protect children or just threaten privacy? I realised I had to fill the vacuum. We own our own minds and together, we can take them back from the forces that are stealing them. Which means that this book could not be more vital. Only this time, the itch I felt wasnt to yell: Youre wasting your lives, put the damn phone down. So the problem isnt the tech, its the business model? Going back to the tech part of this, theres a circularity here thats deeply depressing to me. They listened, they distinguished it from lies and conspiracy theories, and ordinary people banded together and pressured their politicians to act. You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid. Johann Hari writes like a dream. Haris book isnt exactly a blueprint for escaping all of this, and to the extent that it is, Im skeptical. It is not. From his research, I learned there are three key factors which you need to get into flow. Everything you do on Facebook is scanned and sorted by Facebook to build a profile of you. Look. I waved my hand, and the fake green leaves rustled a little. When I asked him what he would do if he was in charge of our culture and he actually wanted to destroy peoples attention, he said: Probably what our society is doing. Prof Barbara Demeneix, a leading French scientist who has studied some key factors that can disrupt attention she is an expert on the effects of chemical pollution told me bluntly: There is no way we can have a normal brain today. We can see the effects all around us. I travelled all over the world in the next three years, from Miami to Moscow to Melbourne, interviewing the leading experts in the world about focus. Theyre switching back and forth. Its one of my earliest political memories. One day, as I tucked him in, he looked at me very earnestly and asked: Johann, will you take me to Graceland one day? Without really thinking, I agreed. Miller told me that as a result we now live in a perfect storm of cognitive degradation. New York Times best-selling author Johann Hari went on an epic journey across the world to meet the leading scientists and experts investigating why this is happening to us and discovered that everything we think we know on this subject is wrong. In that world, Facebook and other social media companies have to ask, What does Sean want? Oh, Sean wants to be able to pay attention. In that moment, your brain has to reconfigure, when it goes from one task to another, he said. Read this book to save your mind., A gripping analysis of why weve lost the capacity to concentrate, and how we might find it again. He took to singing Jailhouse Rock at the top of his voice with all the low crooning and pelvis-jiggling of the King himself. And the more we consume this content, the more attention-seeking and clickbait-y it gets. Its like were having itching powder dumped on us all day and then were being told, You know what, buddy, you might want to learn how to meditate, then you wouldnt scratch so much. We need to get out of this psychology and remind ourselves that were not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg for a few little crumbs from his table. We need to just say that a business model premised upon discovering the weaknesses in your attention in order to hack it and sell it to the highest bidder is fundamentally immoral and inhuman like leaded paint, and we will not allow it. Hari not only achieves this and more, but he does so it with the pace, sparkle and energy of the best kind of thriller writer. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I would say its even worse. That night I found him in the Heartbreak Hotel, sitting next to a swimming pool (shaped like a giant guitar), looking sad. And this is a crisis that we must address if we are to meet any of the other pressing emergencies we face as a species, whether ecological or social. Were very, very single-minded. We have very limited cognitive capacity. But none of these changes will happen unless we fight for them. I remember saying to Aza and many of the other people who argue this to me, Okay. And even quite unlikely politicians who were very hostile to government regulation, like Margaret Thatcher and George Bush Sr., came together. Delivery charges may apply. But lets imagine we do that, what happens the next day when I open Facebook, does it just say, Sorry guys, weve gone fishing? But it does point to a problem that we probably dont take seriously enough. Haris subject is something that is affecting us all and this seminal work will be one of the defining books of our era. I remember Aza Raskin, who invented a key part of how the internet works his dad, Jef Raskin, actually invented the Apple Macintosh for Steve Jobs I remember Aza saying to me, The first step of the solution is really simple: we need to ban the current business model, what Professor Shoshana Zuboff brilliantly called surveillance capitalism.. All those things I just said are true of individual attention. His TED talks have been viewed 78 million times. My book is about attention at two levels. Facebooks algorithms are scanning you. The ideal way would be if somebody 200 years ago, even a century ago, had begun to administer attention tests to ordinary people and did every year since. A small study of college students found they now only focus on any one task for 65 seconds. But whatever alternative model we adopt, the crucial thing is to understand in this different model, your attention is no longer the product they sell to the real customer, the advertiser. That would be perfect evidence. And hes like, No, no, no, thats not what I meant. He helped me see a useful parallel. Id say youre weak, youre lazy, youre not disciplined enough. And every time you put it down, their revenue streams disappear. And if youre part of this circus, youre drowning in options and gadgets and screens and youre being pulled in a million directions seemingly all at once. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with the world's leading experts on attention problems, Lost Focus moves beyond individual solutions towards a collective understanding of a problem facing us all. He used to be an advisor on a lot of dystopian movies, like Minority Report. Thats the business model of Big Tech. There are two ways that I think we could reasonably reach the conclusion that were in an attention crisis. Putting down my phone and picking up a book has saved my sleep. Our focus has been stolen. And if you swipe right, you can see the jungle room to the right.. The figures for the US are staggering. I also hoped that if I stripped everything back for a time, I might start to be able to glimpse the changes we could all make in a more sustainable way. Im Sale-Bereich finden Sie besonders rabattierte Artikel oder Aktionen zu besonderen Anlssen. If you swipe left, you can see the jungle room to the left. We will have as the former Google engineer Tristan Harris told me downgraded humanity, stripping us of our attention at the very time when we face big collective crises that require it more than ever. Later, I realised when I interviewed the experts and studied their research that there were many reasons why my attention was starting to heal from that first day. That thing that you are proud of required a huge amount of sustained focus and attention. Social media may affect girls mental health earlier than boys, study finds, How my husband finally cracked and got a mobile phone, The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones. I was living in the light. For the first time in a very long time, in Provincetown I was doing one thing at a time, without being interrupted. And it had been known, actually going all the way back to ancient Rome, that exposure to lead is really bad for you. There are all sorts of changes we can make at a personal level that will protect our focus. Flow takes all your mental energy, deployed deliberately in one direction. We live in a distracted world, almost certainly the most distracted world in human history. As always, theres much more in the full podcast, so subscribe to Vox Conversations on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. In the book, you acknowledge the incompleteness of the evidence here, even writing that We dont have any long-term studies tracking these changes in peoples ability to focus over time. So I have to ask, how much of this is anecdotal and speculative and how much of it is empirical and data-driven? We have to act based on a reasonable assessment of risk. The first is individual. We will spend less time being harassed by our bosses, and well be tracked and manipulated less by technology along with lots of other improvements in our lives that are desirable in any case. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? This has been done to us by powerful external forces. We need to understand that our attention did not collapse, our attention has been stolen from us by these very big forces. I announced triumphantly to everyone I am going to be there for three months, with no smartphone, and no computer that can get online. In front of us, I could see the large fake plants that Elvis had bought to turn this room into his own artificial jungle. It seems to me that almost all of us are currently losing that 20% of our brainpower, almost all the time. Every few hours, I would feel an unfamiliar sensation gurgling inside me and I would ask myself: what is that? I learned there are twelve factors that have been proven to reduce peoples ability to pay attention and that many of these factors have been rising in the past few decades sometimes dramatically. Delivered Fridays. He has cracked the code of why were in this crisis, and how to get out of it. You see ads and they make money from the ads. When the plane first touched down in New Orleans two weeks before, he took out his phone while we were still in our seats. And that means the content it produces is increasingly designed for a distracted population. The mysterious disappearance of the Secret Services January 6 texts. He swore he would. We wont allow it. Now, its really important to notice what they didnt do. You matter. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. n Moscow, the former Google engineer James Williams who has become the most important philosopher of attention in the western world told me I had made a crucial mistake. For example, one study at the Carnegie Mellon Universitys human computer interaction lab took 136 students and got them to sit a test. Another model that everyone can understand is something like the sewer system. I noticed that with each year that passed, it felt like my own attention was getting worse. Amy Orben: To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope, One in four children 'have problematic smartphone use'. Johann Haris books on addiction and depression transformed those debates, appearing in 37 languages, praised by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky to Hillary Clinton. abweichen. This is a book about our attention crisis unlike any youve read before. Sonderaktionen, Gutscheine und vieles mehr! To hear the rest of the conversation, click here, and be sure to subscribe to Vox Conversations on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. In France, ordinary workers decided this was intolerable and pressured their government for change so now, they have a legal right to disconnect. Whats the mystery here? The US spends billions on foreign aid. He shows how he learned this in a thrilling journey that takes him from Silicon Valley dissidents who figured out how to hack human attention, to veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD; from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, to an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their workers attention. I know somethings wrong, Adam said, holding his phone tightly in his hand. Within a few days, I started to flow, and hours of focus would pass without it feeling like a challenge. Johann Hari is one of the most insightful critics of our modern malaise, and hes written the book the world needs to win the war on distraction., A brilliant book about one of the most important topics of our time, Thanks to this brilliant book, I have got to know myself and my fellow humans better. We could, for example, force social media companies to abandon their current business model, which is specifically designed to invade our attention in order to keep us scrolling. Companies that break the rules get huge fines. Then one evening, as we lay on my sofa, each staring at our own ceaselessly shrieking screens, I looked at him and felt a low dread. At the end of every day, I would sit on the beach and watch the light slowly change. Individual abstinence is not the solution, for the same reason that wearing a gas mask for two days a week outside isnt the answer to pollution. And therefore the more attention seeking and clickbait-y our minds get. Millions turn to Vox to understand whats happening in the news. I was losing my ability to be present, and I hated it. Blame your local officials. I thought the solution was obvious: be more disciplined, and banish your phone. For younger listeners who dont know, the planet is protected by a layer of ozone that keeps us safe from the suns rays. And I felt like I could see this happening to most of the people I knew. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. You are handed an iPad, you put in little earbuds, and the iPad tells you what to do turn left; turn right; walk forward. Hari argues that were all becoming lost in our own lives, which feel more and more like a parade of diversions. It might, for a short period of time, keep certain effects at bay, but its not sustainable, and it doesnt address the systemic issues. He said that our attention is being deeply altered by huge invasive forces in wider society. He seemed to be whirring at the speed of Snapchat, and nothing still or serious could gain any traction in his mind. Loading Quotes So I reached out to him for the latest episode of Vox Conversations. I had been focused on tech at first, but in fact the causes range very widely from the food we eat to the air we breathe, from the hours we work to the hours we no longer sleep. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. And as a result, the ozone layer is now healing. Think about anything youve ever achieved in your life, whether its setting up a business, learning to play the guitar, being a good parent. This article was amended on 7 March 2022 to include reference to Prof Barbara Demeneixs area of scientific study. He tells us what he learned from spending three months off the internet, reveals the inside story of the war to grab our attention that is waged every day, and explores why those prescribing mood stimulants to 10% of children in schools are getting it so wrong. It educates and entertains you the stories will suck any reader in, and then slowly change your mind. In my first webless week, I stumbled around in a haze of decompression. Provincetown is a little gay resort town with the highest proportion of same-sex couples in the US. We learn about the world through the TV and we start to think like the TV, we start to see the world through the eyes of TV. Its called turning your head. I knew I could only do it because I was very lucky and had money from my previous books. People seemed to be using Provincetown simply as a backdrop for selfies, rarely looking up, at the ocean or each other. And when attention and focus break down and I think theres persuasive evidence they are breaking down your ability to achieve your goals breaks down and your ability to solve your problems is significantly diminished. I knew it couldnt be a long-term solution. Losing the web felt like that. Thats it. But bad local decisions have helped drive prices of housing, energy, and everything else higher. Through tireless research and genius insight Johann Hari certainly snapped me to attention. We have bad food, for example, and so people are getting fat. The way we live changed dramatically our food supply changed, and we built cities that are hard to walk or cycle around, and those changes in our environment led to changes in our bodies. Hes both lyricist and storyteller but also an indefatigable investigator of one of the worlds greatest problems: the systematic destruction of our attention. hen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley. Die gelieferte Auflage kann ggf. I did it because I thought that if I didnt, I might lose some crucial aspects of my ability to think deeply. Its interesting when I started working on the book, and I said to people, Im thinking of writing a book about attention and focus, people said to me, Oh, so youre writing a book about smartphones. And what struck me actually in the research is there are aspects of our technology that are profoundly damaging our ability to focus that can be fixed. Being a pedestrian in the US was already dangerous. Here. It was mostly mothers saying, Look, this is really damaging our childrens brains. And to the extent that youre right, why is the assault on our attention a genuine crisis? I announced triumphantly to everyone I am going to be there for three months, with no smartphone, and no computer that can get online. Look. He waved the iPad in her direction, and began to move his finger across it. If you spend any time online, you already know this. A life changing book., Johann Haris superb STOLEN FOCUS is a beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankinds ability to pay attention. Look, Im not nostalgic about the 80s. This is not because we suddenly became greedy or self-indulgent. If you stay awake for 19 hours, your attention will be as bad as if you were legally drunk. Before we had sewers, we had shit in the streets, we had cholera. I cant not use Snapchat and texting, obviously. He said this with baffled honesty, as though I had asked him to hold his breath for 10 days. Were in the jungle room. This is being done to all of us. Suddenly, you are the customer. Copyright Johann Hari 2021. Newsletter abonnieren und einmalig 10 % Rabatt auf Gebrauchtes sichern! When he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley. It is a clarion call for us to take back our focus. And it seems to be getting worse and worse every year. Senate Republicans burned a bill that would have helped veterans heres why. The first way is obvious. I promise you it will be worth your time and certainly worth your focus., If you want to get your attention and focus back, you need to read this remarkable book. I did it because I thought that if I didnt, I might lose some crucial aspects of my ability to think deeply. Mad about inflation? You have a right to defined work hours, and you have a right to not be contacted by your employer outside those hours. Ten years later, Adam was lost. When neuroscientists studied this, they found that when people believe they are doing several things at once, they are actually juggling. So just as we all own the sewage pipes together, we might want to own the information pipes together, because we are getting the attentional equivalent of cholera and the political equivalent of cholera. I realised that to heal my attention, it was not enough simply to strip out distractions. We would have a very high degree of confidence, in the same way that we know that IQ tests have been administered in pretty similar ways for more than a century. I had just turned 40, and wherever my generation gathered, we would lament our lost capacity for concentration. This can sound a bit abstract but I met people who were putting it into practice in many places. Im done. I never gave it another thought, until everything had gone wrong. I think you would get some people who would wear ozone layer badges, you would get other people who would film themselves spraying CFCs into the atmosphere to own the libs and make them cry. But I came to believe that we really are in a quite serious attention crisis, one that helps us to understand a lot of problems were facing, both as individuals and collectively. It might, for a short period of time, keep certain effects at bay, but its not sustainable, and it doesnt address the systemic issues. He said that our attention is being deeply altered by huge invasive forces in wider society. The light on the cape is unlike the light anywhere else I have ever been and in Provincetown, I could see more clearly than I ever had before in my life my own thoughts, my own goals, my own dreams. I cant remember reading a book which made me shout out yes! If you have a night where you sleep six hours, youre going to be more inclined to just scroll and scroll the next day, so it leaves you more vulnerable to these invasive technologies. Honey, he said, this is amazing. So lets say that you like Donald Trump and you tell your mom you just bought some diapers. I own the sewers in London and Las Vegas, you own the sewers in the city where you live. When you arrive at the gates of Graceland, there is no longer a human being whose job is to show you around. I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley interviewing some of the leading dissidents there, people who designed key aspects of the world in which we now live. We gained mass, en masse. Crucially, he learned how as individuals, and as a society we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. Our ability to pay attention was cracking and breaking. During the decade in which Adam had become a man, this fracturing seemed to be happening to many of us. When I first got back from Graceland, I thought my attention was failing because I wasnt strong enough as an individual and because I had been taken over by my phone. Nigg said it might help me grasp whats happening if we compare our rising attention problems to our rising obesity rates. It was stolen. You can see it unmediated. A new book by the British journalist Johann Hari, called Stolen Focus, takes a close look at whats happening and whats happened to our collective attention. And these changes interact with other changes. The virus is surging again. He took to singing Jailhouse Rock at the top of his voice with all the low crooning and pelvis-jiggling of the King himself. Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. So when the time came to leave the beach house and come back to the hyperlinked world, I became convinced I had cracked the code of attention. Heres how to be your own contact tracer if you get sick. Exclusive: Inside Amazons plan to neutralize powerful unions by hiring ex-inmates and vulnerable students. And that requires us to think very differently about our attention problems. If the people warning about the effects on our attention turn out to be wrong, and we still do what they suggest, what will be the cost? I ate cupcakes, read books, talked with strangers and sang songs. Im tired of being wired. Biden gets the blowback. For so long, I had received the thin, insistent signals of the web every few hours throughout the day, the trickle of likes and comments that say: I see you. We discuss what happened to our attention, who he thinks stole it, and why our collective distraction is a genuine crisis. Its important to say, though, that the way big tech wants us to frame this debate is, are you pro-tech or anti-tech? Then you wouldnt scratch so much. Meditation is a useful tool but we actually need to stop the people who are pouring itching powder on us. The second way is much more important. The dawn of tappigraphy: does your smartphone know how you feel before you do? And they said, Of course not. What would happen is they would move to a different business model. I felt like it was particularly bad for some of the young people in my life, a lot of whom seemed to be worrying at the speed of Snapchat. I thought the solution was obvious: be more disciplined, and banish your phone. I learned about this initially from Jaron Lanier, a brilliant tech dissident, and indeed a brilliant technologist. Youre slower. Fifty years ago there was very little obesity, but today it is endemic in the western world. STOLEN FOCUS wont just capture your attentionit will keep you thinking and rethinking long after youve finished it. But I think there are reasonable ways we can infer from other substantial bodies of evidence. Thats it! quite so many times. Adam, I said softly, lets go to Graceland. I reminded him of the promise I had made. I think the figure, if I remember rightly, is something like 37 percent of Americans sleep less than seven hours a night. Something similar, he said, might be happening with the changes in our attention. By submitting your email, you agree to our, Why you (probably) wont finish reading this story. I felt I was focusing in the way I had when I was a teenager, in long effortless stretches. I was living within the limits of what my brain could actually handle. It felt like things that require a deep focus, like reading a book, or watching long films, were getting more and more like running up and down an escalator. When I was reunited with my phone and laptop after taking a ferry back to where they were stashed in Boston, they seemed alien, and alienating. Second, that goal needs to be meaningful to you you cant flow into a goal that you dont care about. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. And when I was a kid, it was discovered that we were releasing a chemical in hairsprays and fridges called CFCs that were damaging the ozone layer. I leaned forward. Look! I said. We learn about the world through the internet and we start to think and communicate like the internet. I realised as I sat with him that, as with so much anger, my rage towards him was really anger towards myself. I learned that the factors harming our attention are not all immediately obvious. In each room, a photograph of where you are appears on the screen, while a narrator describes it. The way we do politics now has become a reflection of TV and the internet and the commercial incentives that drive it. So we all paid to build the sewers and we all own the sewers together. The answers will surprise and thrill you. For a long time, I told myself, Well, every generation struggles with attention. You can read letters from monks 1,000 years ago where one of them says to the other, My attention isnt what it used to be. Its just that youre getting older, and as you get older, your mind deteriorates and you mistake your own deterioration for the deterioration of the world.
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