Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention

Johann Johann Johann. Where was our focus when you wrote this book? For a start, don't bother reading this book if you want to understand how to improve your focus. Most of it is devoted to social system scale factors that the author thinks impede on focus. But he increasingly veers off course eventually ending up at the whole economy. His editor should be fired because s/he was AWOL on this book. His hypothesis is that focus is mostly something that happens to you. Guess what, you're a victim. F-off. His only “Self-help” approach to improving focus is to deny yourself of technology. He hasn't heard of self discipline or the idea that it's something that can be built. That's the only fundamental solution to focus and he doesn't even mention it once. What an idiot, what a poor victim. Yes, the system scale factors can make focus more difficult, & in conjunction with how “Big tech” (eg. Facebook) manipulates not only the capture of our attention but more sinisterly, what it is pointed towards, is something that needs more social attention.