Shifted Priorities: How to Regain Deep Thought and Why You Can't Pay Attention

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Teenagers in the US can only concentrate on a single activity for sixty-five seconds at a time, while office professionals can only concentrate for three minutes on average. REY K. WEBBER was discovering, like a lot of us, that living a life of always hopping from gadget to gadget and tab to tab was becoming less fulfilling and sad. He attempted a variety of self-help techniques, including giving up his phone for three months, but nothing seemed to help. To interview the top authorities on human attention, REY set out on an incredible global tour. Upon arriving, he learned that our preconceived notions about the nature of this catastrophe were completely false.

We believe that our inability to focus results from a lack of willpower on our part to put down our gadgets. The reality is much more unsettling: strong outside influences have diverted our attention, making us particularly susceptible to businesses looking to capitalize on our distractions. According to REY, four major factors are causing this issue, which have taken some of our focus away from one another. These factors include the rise in pollution and the fall in meandering. He exposes readers to Silicon Valley rebels who figured out how to manipulate human attention, as well as veterinarians who identify canines as having ADHD, in Shifted Priorities. He visits a Rio de Janeiro favela where everyone seems to have lost their focus in a very bizarre way, as well as a New Zealand workplace that found an amazing approach to get employees back to work.
Most importantly, REY discovered that if we are willing to fight for it, we can recover our priorities as a community and as people. Finally, SHIFTED PRIORITIES will change the conversation about attention and teach us how to regain it
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