![]() ![]() ![]() The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are by Aaron Ahuvia, Ph.D., is an investigation into our emotional relationships with things and hobbies.ĭrawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing, this must-read creative book of 2022 presents astonishing discoveries that prove we are far less “rational” when we think about our possessions and hobbies. ![]() Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention-and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.Ĭrucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus-as individuals and as a society-if we are determined to fight for it. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions-even abandoning his phone for three months-but nothing seemed to work. ![]() Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. From the New York Times, bestselling author of Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why focusing is getting harder-and how to get our attention back. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari is about the challenges of focusing and how our ability to pay attention is collapsing. ![]()
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