Johann Hari: Why You Can’t Pay Attention
Wednesday, 21 Sep 2022, 09:00am - Saturday, 15 Oct 2022, 11:59pm
Past event
Award-winning writer Johann Hari explores why we have lost our ability to focus and, most importantly, how we can get it back.
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An inability to focus can feel like a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. In his acclaimed latest book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again, award-winning writer and journalist Johann Hari posits that our failure to focus is not personal, but a social phenomenon caused by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen.
In this special digital lecture recorded at the Wheeler Centre for the Big Anxiety Festival, Hari will share his discoveries following a three-year journey interviewing leading experts on attention and uncovering the reasons behind our shortening attention spans.
Don’t miss this timely event about how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.
Presented in partnership with RMIT Culture and UNSW as part of The Big Anxiety
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Closed Captioned
About the book
The online bookseller for this event is Readings.
The Big Anxiety
The Big Anxiety festival is the largest mental health and arts festival in the world, and promotes mental health and wellbeing through exciting arts projects that combine science and creativity. The 2022 festival will be held in October in Melbourne.
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Johann Hari is a bestselling writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian and other newspapers. His TED talks have been viewed over 70 million times, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah to Noam Chomsky. He lives in London. ... Read more
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