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Distracted : Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention, Paperback / softback Book

Distracted : Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention Paperback / softback

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This visionary book details the steep costs of our deepening crisis of distraction and reveals remarkable scientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus and sustained attention. In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Maggie Jackson sounded a prescient warning of a looming crisis: the fragmentation of attention that is eroding our abilities to problem-solve, innovate, and care for one another.

Now in this updated edition with an incisive new preface, she offers both a renewed wake-up call and a path forward as we reckon with one of the most pressing problems of our time.

How can we harness the technological marvels of our age more wisely and turn data into knowledge and distraction into skillful attention?

How can we reset human bonds in a time of deep disconnection?

We must, she argues, curb technological excess by cultivating the full gamut of our attentional capabilities.

We must look first to the human behind the device. Jackson is our expert guide in exploring the historic roots of distraction, the perils we face in melding human and machine, and the cutting-edge science that reveals the attentional skills most needed in an age of overload.

Timely and unforgettable, Distracted offers a harrowing yet hopeful account of the fate of our highest human capacity.

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