April Book Club: Stolen Focus
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Inspired by Positive Psychology titles but no time to read?
Join CAPPster Andrea Seydel each month for an unconventional approach to reading a book as a community. And take a deep dive into a Positive Psychology book of our community’s choice!
For April our community picked ‘Stolen Focus’ by Johann Hari.
Spend a month reading the book along side us or simply join the event on Monday, April 20th from 7:30-9pm EST and have the book taught to you through lecture, lively discussion and breakout groups.
About Stolen Focus
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.
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