Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?

For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failing - a flaw in each one of us. It is not. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention.

Crucially, he learned how - as individuals, and as a society - we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.

为什么我们失去了专注的能力？原因是什么？而且，最重要的是，我们如何才能恢复它？

国际畅销书作家约翰·哈瑞（Johann Hari）进行了一次为期三年的旅行，以揭示我们注意力持续时间缩短的原因。他采访了世界上主要的注意力专家，并了解到我们对这个问题的所有想法都是错误的。

我们通常认为我们无法专注是个人的失败，是我们每个人的缺陷，其实不然。这是由强大的外部力量对我们所有人所做的结果，我们的注意力是被偷走的。在旅行中，约翰发现了12个深刻的案例，从硅谷的持不同政见者、注意力消失的里约热内卢贫民窟、新西兰的一间办公室等地方，找到了一个非凡的方法来恢复我们的注意力。

最重要的是，他了解到，作为个人和社会，如果我们决心为之奋斗，就可以重新获得我们的注意力。