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Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention -- and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari 2022 Aloha Lib 153.733 HARI Johann

• wikipedia b1979 / Kings College Cambridge / plagiarism?

• author website

• p50 Mihaly Csikszentmihali (cheek-sent-he-high-ee) hiding from bombs in butcher shop, with collaborator corpses on meat hooks

• p52 goes to study psychology, shocked by dominance of B. F. Skinner

• p57 Positive psychology focus on what makes life worth living

• p65 Charles Czeisler

• p66 sleep deprivation stretched normal half-second responses to five seconds

• p73 Roxanne Prichard 5 mg melatonin blows out sleep receptors ??? citation needed, nothing obvious in literature

• p80 57% of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year
• p82 compared to books, screens less understandable and remembered "screen inferiority"
• p84 the "message"? The world can be understood in 280 characters
• p85 Twitter least useful ... your thinking will rapidly degrede

• p94 rp304 Mlodinow Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World 2018

• p96 Poincaré solution for Automorphic Functions while stepping onto a bus

• p106 Tristan Harris The Social Dilemma

• p119 Aza Raskin

• p119 infinite scroll

• p121 social media makes people unempathetic, angry, and hostile

• p127 rp307 Age of Surveillance Capitalism

• p133 Sites "frack" you, learn your triggers and target your attention

• p136 YouTube recommended Alex Jones Infowars 15 billion times

• p140 rage-driven algorithms of social media and Youtube damages attention and focus

• p148 Nir Ayal blog post: Want to Hook Your Users? Drive Them Crazy

• p150 Ronald Purser

• p150 Lauren Berlant cruel optimism

• p151 Stress is imposed on you
• p153 The average weight gain for an adult between 1960 and 2002 was 24 pounds
• p155 environment designed to invade and raid our focus
• p156 "just ban surveillance capitalism"

• p162 Mark Ledwich says YouTube is slightly deradicalizing

  • unless you log in so it can track you says Nir
• p164 Common Ground, internal unit at Facebook, 64% join extremist groups because Facebook recommended them
• p165 dismissed by Facebook

• p166 Hari, war on drugs: Chasing the Scream

• p166 Swiss grandmother Lydia Hari
• p168 Hari gay, was crime, now OK

• p170 Jaron Lanier stopped warning about dystopias, which inspired designers to make them

• p173 Bayview near SF, violence and stress

• p176 Children with 4+ types of trauma 32.6 times more likely to have attention or behavior problem diagnoses

• p181 Universal basic income

• p197 Dale Pinnock nutritionist

• p200 kids not fed preservatives and dyes, 50% attentiveness improvement

• p202 Joel T. Nigg OHSU, ADHD linked to food

• p205 living near major road, 15% more likely to develop dementia

• p205 Yuchi et al

• p206 Vitruvius lead pipe poisoning

• p208 1925 Dr. Alice Hamilton opposed leaded gasoline

  • Thomas Midgley pushed leaded gasoline, later diagnosed with lead poisoning

• p221 Dr. Sami Timimi opposed medicalization of ADHD

• p222 people think psychiatrists are pill dispensers
• p223 Moved "problem child" away from irrational teacher
• p224 struggle to focus labelled ADHD, instead discover underlying problem by listening to child

• p224 Alan Sroufe

• p225 ADHD caused by chaotic environment
• p226 reaction to circumstances
• p227 Author's friends use stimulants to concentrate on projects

• p228 ADHD stimulant dextroamphetamine reduces meth addict cravings

• p228 Adderall same effect

• p231 rp325 1999 ADHD 14 month clinical trial

• p233 identical twins treated alike, similar behavior (like ADHD) results
• p234 flawed twin studies aside, no individual gene is has large causal role
• p235 non-twin studies show 20% to 30% of ADHD relates to genes

• p235 Joel Nigg at OHSU, Child and Adolescent Psychology

• p235 Alan Sroufe genes (ie ADHD) switch by environmental input

• p239 37% of elementary schools have no form of recess, most time spent drilling for tests

• p240 Lenore Skenazy

• p240 unaccompanied 9yo children reported as parental negligence to police
• p242 children 3 times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a stranger
• p244 children learn their most important skills when they play

• p245 Barbara Sarnecka UC Irvine, childhood is exploring, not mapped

• p246 Jonathan Haidt play deprivation -> rise in child anxiety

• p248 460,000 children missing for more than 1 hour, 105 were actual kidnappings, all but 8 made it home safe

• p249 Classrooms with boxes and toys, kids told to play; some did, many just stood and watched, inert

• p250 teaches child independence

• p252 Child told what to do - bored, couldn't focus. Allowed to play, attention and reading thrived
• p252 Experiences at school led to feelings of incompetence

• p253 Neale Donald Walsch "Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone."

• p254 Parents change when they see their kids do something without help.

• p256 No Child Left Behind Act huge testing increases, 22% increase in severe attention problems

  • compared to what contemporary control?

• p256 Sudbury Valley School structure created by student

• p259 post-1870 modern schools: sit still, shut up, follow orders, prepare for factory work
• p260 rats that play when young are smarter

• p261 Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum students choose subject, then half of lessons explore it deeply

• p261 Finland, children play until age 7, 5 hours of schoolwork w/o homework until age 16, no testing, free play
• p262 only 0.1% diagnosed with attention problems
• p265 1st attention layer: immediate actions, 2nd layer longer term goals, 3rd layer focus on how and why
• p266 denial of service attacks on our minds
• p268 author's 6 big life changes:
  • 1: reduce task switching
  • 2: access flow state, ability to focus deeply
  • 3: six months of year off social media
  • 4: hour walk, let mind wander
  • 5: strict about 8 hours sleep
  • 6: play freely with children

• p275 activists paint warnings on Kingsnorth Coal Station, explain their goals in court, acquitted by jury

• p276 new coal stations cancelled, began to close remaining
• p280 "a steady state economy"