Stolen Focus, Johann HariIn the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self help solutionseven abandoning his phone for three monthsbut nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to

Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere

Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans

when monks began to perfect the craft again

a Japanese woman now living alone in England

Two weeks after losing her husband

When asked simple questions about global trends - what percentage of the world's population lives in poverty

a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied

and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list―her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed

As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania

“Beautiful and propulsive

the forces of nature and the social constraints that people struggle to overcome

I was actually under the impression that I was in a relationship