Your Attention Has Been Stolen: It’s Time to Get It Back

We are living in a huge attention crisis.

The average office worker now focuses on any one task for less than three minutes, and for every one child identified with serious attention deficits in 1986, there are now 100.

In this eye-opening session, award-winning author Johann Hari will draw on his book “Stolen Focus: Why You can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again” to discuss the journey he undertook from Moscow to Miami to Melbourne as he tried to understand why his own attention was getting worse.

Through more than 200 interviews with leading experts on attention and a deep dive into their research, he learned there is scientific evidence for 12 factors that can make your attention better, or worse.

Hari will outline the factors which range from the obvious, such as changes in technology, to others that are not discussed widely, such as the food we eat, to the way our offices work, and the way our children’s schools work.

Ready25 attendees will be given a front-row seat to the insights Hari discovered to solve the attention crisis and the practical steps we can all take to get it back.