Journalist and “Stolen Focus” author Johann Hari joins Rich for a discussion on social media and our degrading attention spans—and the solutions forward. To read more about Johann and peruse the full show notes, go here👉🏾https://bit.ly/richroll661
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:07 Johann's Recent Bill Mahr Appearance
00:03:13 Primer on Johann's New Book "Stolen Focus"
00:14:25 Johann's Inspiration & Experience Going Off-Line from Tech
00:24:55 Responding to Stolen Attention with Defense and Offense
00:31:46 How Can We Collectively Respond to Our Attention Crisis?
00:39:00 The 'Switch Cost Effect' & Cognitive Degradation
00:43:22 Flow State & 3 Steps to Achieve It
00:46:49 3 Steps to Achieving Flow
00:50:16 Nutrition and the Way It Affects Our Attention
00:52:47 Chemicals and Pollutants that Harm Our Capacity for Attention
00:58:42 The Reason to Be Optimistic that We Can Make Change
01:01:57 We Need an Attention Movement
01:03:16 Tristan Harris - What's Going on Inside the Tech Industry
01:06:49 Quality of Engagement vs. Quantity of Engagement
01:14:54 Our Current Trajectory is Not Good, but It Can Change
01:19:44 Attention Problems with Children
01:30:03 How the Pandemic has Affected Attention
01:33:54 Social Media Algorithms and Negativity Bias
01:38:58 It's Going to Take a Collective Will to Change Our Status Quo
01:44:32 Parody of Connection
01:56:27 Moving Away from 'Junk' Values to 'Meaningful' Values
02:04:53 Practical Advice - What Can We Do to Pay More Attention?
02:10:11 Closing Remarks

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