Johann Hari

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. "The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction."--Adam Grant, author of Think Again "Read this book to save your mind."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful 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. 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. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. 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. We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity. Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SPECTATOR AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 ‘If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one’ TELEGRAPH ‘This book is exactly what the world needs right now’ OPRAH WINFREY ‘A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention’ STEPHEN FRY ‘A really important book . . . Everyone should read it’ PHILIPPA PERRY Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. It is not. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. Johann discovered there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention. Crucially, he learned how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. "The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction."--Adam Grant, author of Think Again "Read this book to save your mind."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful 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. 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. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. 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. We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity. Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

Auhinnatud ajakirjanikku Johann Harit painas lahendamata müsteerium. Miks olid depressioon ja ärevus aastatega üha levinumaks mureks muutunud. Küsimusel leidus ka isiklik põhjus: Hari oli nende küüsis vaevelnud teismeliseeast saati. Arsti pakutud lahendused tõid küll ajutist leevendust, kuid sügav hingeline valu ei kadunud. Täiskasvanuna asus Hari 60 000 kilomeetri pikkusele teekonnale ümber maailma, et vestelda juhtivate asjatundjatega selle üle, mis põhjustab nende arvates depressiooni ja ärevushäireid ning mis neid leevendab. Ta sai teada, et neil haigustel leidub üheksa erinevat teaduslikult tõestatud põhjust ning sellest teadlikuna jõuab täiesti teistmoodi lahenduseni, mis pakub tõelist lootust. Johann Hari on auhinnatud briti ajakirjanik ja näitekirjanik. Ta oli Independenti ja Huffington Posti kolumnist, kelle töid on avaldatud ka New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, El Mundo, Guardianis ning paljud teised juhtivad väljaanded.

"En av de bästa böcker jag någonsin har läst, den är som en thriller med stegrad spänning, full av fascinerande samtal med forskare och människor som drabbats av depressioner.” SmålandspostenJohann Hari har lidit av depression sedan han var liten, och började äta anti-depressiv medicin i tonåren. Men varje år behövde dosen ökas, och Johann började fundera över orsakerna. Så Johann åkte ut på en tre år och över sextusen mil lång resa. Han gjorde över tvåhundra intervjuer med några av världens mest framstående samhällsvetare, men också med helt vanliga människor som befunnit sig på botten och tillfrisknat. Han hamnade på alla möjliga ställen som en amish-by i Indiana, ett hyreshus i Berlin som gjort uppror, en brasiliansk stad som förbjudit reklam och ett laboratorium i Baltimore som arbetar på ett helt oväntat sätt. Och överallt gjorde han samma upptäckt. Det finns en gemensam orsak till att vi människor mår dåligt, en orsak som inte bara har med kemiska obalanser i hjärnan att göra, utan med det liv vi lever.

Den prisvinnende engelske journalisten Johann Hari fikk det ikke til å stemme: Han var 39 år, og for hvert år han hadde levd, hadde omfanget av depresjon og angst økt i Storbritannina og i den vestlige verden. Hvorfor? Han hadde en personlig grunn til å stille dette spørsmålet. Da han var tenåring, hadde han gått til legen med lammende angst og depresjon, og han kunne verken kontrollere det eller forstå det. Noen av løsningene legen foreslo, ga ham noe lindring, men den dype smerten ble han ikke kvitt. Så, som voksen, la han ut på en lang reise verden over for å intervjue ledende eksperter om hva som forårsaker depresjon og angst, og om hva kan løse det. Han lærte at det er vitenskapelige bevis for ni forskjellige årsaker til depresjon og angst – og at denne kunnskapen gir håp om en løsning.

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

Journalisten Johann Hari har lidit av depression sedan han var liten, och började äta anti-depressiv medicin i tonåren. Men varje år behövde dosen ökas, och Johann, som själv är samhällsvetare, började fundera över orsakerna. Så Johann åkte ut på en tre år och över sextusen mil lång resa. Han gjorde över tvåhundra intervjuer med några av världens mest framstående samhällsvetare, men också med helt vanliga människor som befunnit sig på botten och tillfrisknat. Han hamnade på alla möjliga ställen som han från början aldrig hade anat att han skulle hamna på: en amish-by i Indiana, ett hyreshus i Berlin som gjort uppror, en brasiliansk stad som förbjudit reklam och ett laboratorium i Baltimore som arbetar på ett helt oväntat sätt.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY'Superb ... Thrilling story-telling' NAOMI KLEIN'A powerful contribution to an urgent debate' GUARDIANWhat if everything we’ve been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to discover what really causes addiction – and how to solve it. Told through a series of gripping human stories, this book was the basis of a TED talk and animation that have been viewed more than twenty million times. It has transformed the global debate about addiction.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL‘This amazing book will change your life’ ELTON JOHN'One of the most important texts of recent years' BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE ‘Brilliant, stimulating, radical' MATT HAIG'The more people read this book, the better off the world will be' NAOMI KLEIN ‘Wonderful’ HILLARY CLINTON‘Eye-opening’ GUARDIAN‘Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health’ ZOE BALL ‘A game-changer’ DAVINA MCCALL ‘Extraordinary’ DR MAX PEMBERTONDepression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions – ones that offer real hope.

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

Revised and Updated The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.

The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.