Producers' Pick | Johann Hari: Stolen Focus - Why You Can't Pay Attention

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Joe wanted to 240876695 start opprobrium. My next guest, John Hariri, Joanne doing a really huge I just now to talk about focus and focusing on what needs to be.

We need to be done.

Joanne welcome already waited six hours working on Joanna Herring to crumple so what you do is, my apologies will sway you do is is you focus on focus and discover about this technological age when it comes to focusing on what each year that Paul required reading a book.

What should a long movie getting me more and more like running up but I'm getting harder and harder to think much more about average American worker now focuses on any one task meet three-minute one child was identified.

Potential problem when I was seven years old is now 100 children figure out what's happening. It's right. What's going on so use my training at Cambridge University to travel the world from Miami to Moscow to Melbourne 200 leading experts on attentional focus more on 12 to make the retention of data like it was loaded to the factors that can make your attention was hugely increasing in recent years. Anyone is listening to your attention is getting worse. Kids attention to what is not willful is not just you, you're not imagining crucially your attention didn't collapse. Your attention is been stolen from one school stolen on 12 month doing this to us, we can begin to build bigger solutions happen intentionally or is just one of those things keep on making the iPhone better keep on making social media more attractive keep on building a website to get more eyeballs or is it something devious and insidious. Some of it by accident. Example we can talk about the smoke. Wiki assignment damaging our ability to focus attention children to play outside freely is profoundly damaging their ability to focus attention one design intention. Don't take my word for it, shown Paco one of the biggest initially invested in Facebook so that we designed Facebook to maximally invade people's attention.

We knew what we were doing and we did anyway what extreme torture) run one of the 12 damaging offer contention article be playing out every single one today.

I went to MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of technology to interview one of the leading neuroscientist in the world am I my professor made look for something you could understand about the human brain more than anything else. You can only consciously think about one or two things at the same time that fit the fundamental limit of the human brain human brain. I get a change of the times. What happened: from massive dilution, the average American teenager now believes I can follow six or seven forms of media son Todd so what happened is starting to get people to obnoxious teenagers and older people as well to get them to think that more than one thing at a time, and it turns out every time you can't do more than one thing at a time. What you do is you chuckle very quickly between tasks and it turns out comes with a really big cost. Just like you can actually talk to the company guideway trying to be more than one thing at a time comes with something called the switch cost effect when you try to do more than one thing at a time. You will of the things you're trying to do not trust comfortably. You'll make more mistakes you remember less of what you do will be much less created a small effect right. One study, for example, found that just being interrupted while you're working is twice as bad for your intelligence and attention getting started on part of it really big if that is what Prof. Miller said to me we are living it up, plastics, cognitive degradation of the moment is a result of being constantly interrupted, so interesting, so you concerns if you keep getting interrupted and you don't have the time to wind down and reflect and think it hurt you cognitively. The long-term got really well. One study found that if you interrupted it takes you on a bridge 23 minutes to get back to level of focus you have before you interrupted most of now netiquette. 23 minutes that you look at our country. What is so important for anyone to think she will show think about anything you've ever achieved in your life.

The problem with starting a business, being a good parent. Learning to play the guitar whenever it is something you problem two: sustained focus and attention focus and attention breakdown. Your ability to achieve any of your goals start to break down your ability to solve your problems breakdown. This is why so heartbreaking when you see The conflict's attention.

As you know they could be less able to achieve anything in the book. My book is about talk to how we can put it right if you don't get attention. What you can't do anything right.

You can't achieve what you want to achieve in your life seen Fox News senior meteorologist. Be sure to subscribe to the GST podcast Fox News pot.com where ever you listen to your podcast and don't forget to spread the sunshine stone focus name of the book and it's not your Ted talks that were over 100 million clicks so people are taking it in.

If you even look who endorse your book from Emma Thompson to to Adam Grant to Elton John, people have really said they see the same problem of all ages about focusing, which is got interesting.

It's almost we have a national it's a self-inflicted ADD so what study did you what study did you do that maybe gave you an idea of how to beat this problem and what could be done to attack this problem because almost everybody listening right now outside that crazy friend you have, who still is a flip phone could really benefit from what you've you've you've researched the 12 part two ways we go to do I think of the defense often depend also much possible as individuals to be one example out of the important thing about the case that if the plastic site you to complement your car in your phone limit on the time the thought of the talk will look like anything between five minutes to hold that I will dump about pondering the present off-line if people come out to dinner I might find Joe, are you.before out that I could give myself a heads.

Think she just click one example I could look recommend people like the things we should shoot help on passionately about the truth of the moment, they would fall meeting one of the leading experts on children's attention problems. Prof. Joe made points to the Portland Oregon sentiment is an attentional pathogenic environment like at the moment someone is itching powder into our heads all day leaning forward to going hey buddy, you might want to learn how to type, but you wouldn't scratch that will screw you got pretty good with you. Should Parliament which is one big changes give you an example of one of the biggest changes. Here is my book is "liminal's criminal grew up in a suburb of Chicago in 1960 like you like me when she was five years old.

She would leave the house and walked to school, which was 15 minutes away generally should arrive she would do something together to all the kids in school tomorrow night. By the time you got to 2003 completely ended up only 10% of American children. By that point the plate outside without an adult on the kitchen to class. I got 10 minutes with a sickly child, climbed children. Childhood became something that happened behind closed doors under adult supervision times out childhood we have lost contain gluten thing was essential to children's attention will be as one exercise children run around and pay attention much better if you could call let them run around but more importantly when children play freely with other kids without adults learn how to use their attention. They love what I find interesting about how to persuade others to pay attention to them). Those were the heroes of the book is not because she described the public easy like truck problems should the solution she let go let go of the older kids to go to the start what she does an organization does going to hold schools and whole neighborhoods swipe to let the children have increasing levels of independence, building up to playing outdoors again where they can begin to develop a healthy attention to compensation for hot stone focus moving within Long Island to a 14-year-old boy allegro program to run the big strong for me right until this program began nine months. The school he had never allowed out of his house and his parents would even let him run around the block right under this program began to play ball in the street and then went into the woods and he said work was still that we still would record all the words he said. We built a school for an awful thing sounds a bit melodramatic.

Jesus foretold watching a child come to life. How many kids on the netiquette that all children at school anything is not right to be surprised because he left the movies with me that day she sent you think about human history, human history, kids have to go out to tartrate explore the space of one generation. We took that away those boys given a tiny little bit afraid of what they do with my billfold so deep in human nature and the bookstore the things we need to do together to heal our attention that one of the big ones. Many think was one of them being to restore human childhood. We did not take especially lost. Even before the we given out to the child to recognize human childhood kids. You can focus.

We could give them a childhood so interesting because Willie Robertson, the Robertson family grew up in a farm is driving the tractor at eight go out in the woods with a God he learned how to shoot it but he was go hunting.

That was the way we lived. At one point in life.

We figured out things for herself and a lot of times, watch the news you think if you kids that always got here. She's gonna get kidnapped and never see him again three times more likely to talk one of these really big changes that happen to shut me up on my struggle with the way we eat is profoundly damaging our ability to focus and pay attention to the superiority big white morning standard American British breakfast. We grew up eating either sugary cereal or white tights right does this release is a huge amount of energy really quickly to play with that thought begun this release so much energy so far.

What it does is you get your desk to get the school desk that I will to later energy Wiltshire trunk and crushes you get what's called brain fog wages You have another sugary copy Trent Lott the way we live so roller coaster coaster energy spikes in energy crushing throughout the day after the break of nutrition is likely putting thoughts for a few minutes.

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We find supermarket time. In particular, candies that monitor the kids the kids. You have to think that the guys will worry more likely to become a threat to struggle with. You can see how so many of the things even think of is affecting our attention like sleep like food discretion experience what all sadly damaging our focus and attention along with the right some elements of the technologies I talked to for four hours and hope to talk to you again.

All no doubt about his New York Times best-selling author, a British writer Johann Hori stone focus why you can't pay attention and how to think deeply again so you don't only identify the problem you solve it. So that's awesome. Thanks so much Fox News can't just subscribe and listen to the Tri-County federal prosecutor and four term US Congressman from South Carolina brings you a one-of-a-kind punch list.com