Johann Hari | Why You Can’t Pay Attention (and how to get it back)

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  We need an attention movement to reclaim our minds.

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  And I absolutely believe we can do that.

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  We don't have to tolerate this.

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  We don't have to accept our minds and our children's minds being diminished in the way that they are right now.

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  These are relatively recent changes.

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  They are not acts of God.

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  They're not magic.

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  They're things that have been done by humans, and they're things that can be undone by humans.

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  Hey, so long time listeners know I'm a little bit obsessed with the area of attention.

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  I have come to believe over a period of years that the quality, the quality and richness of our lives is in no small part determined by the depth and quality of our attention.

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  If it's massively distracted, perpetually spinning out, focused on negativity, that will also largely be the state of our lives, regardless of the actual objective circumstance of our lives.

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  And that is where we're going in today's powerful conversation with my guest, Johann Hari.

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  So Johan is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Le Mans, the Guardian, and many other newspapers, media outlets.

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  His TED talks and now this viral video have been viewed something like 100 million times.

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  And his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky.

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  He was the executive producer of the Oscar nominated film the United States versus Billie Holiday.

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  And following an incident with his godson a few years back, he decided to turn his attention to the topic of attention, exploring what attention actually is, how it affects us, our mental and physical health, our relationships, careers, and lives, and what our ability to either harness or lose control of it is doing to us, and also how our world technology and global enterprise have built models designed to effectively hijack our attention, not in the name of the betterment of our lives or of humanity, but rather for their own good.

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  And Johan goes deep into his research and ideas in the groundbreaking book stolen focus, why you can't pay attention, and we explore what he calls an attentional pathogenic culture, how it's making life both harder and sometimes sadder, and importantly, what we can do about it to reclaim our attention and in doing so, reclaim our lives.

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  So excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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