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So, this is another blog about Stolen Focus by Johann Hari.

But it’s just an analogy that I want to give you to explain the fundamental problems that are now existing with interruption to our concentration and our loss of focus.

In the book, Hari steals the metaphor of light to explain attention. Let’s keep it simple and have 3 different types:

This is your ability to produce a blog post over the space of 10 or 15 minutes, perhaps on a subject that you’re interested in and then to put it down.

Focusing on a task and getting the task completed.

Let’s come back to that after number 3.

Starlight is your guiding light on a dark night. It’s your principles, your mission, where you would like to go or be.

It’s fundamental to join happiness and to extinguish that feeling of meaninglessness and emptiness that so many people feel when they feel that they’re not making a contribution.

Back to number 2.

Daylight is the ability to enact your starlight on a day-to-day basis.

It’s the ability to prioritise and rationalise tasks and appointments and time to make sure you’re trying your best to move in the direction that you wanted to.

All of the experts in the book agree in unison but the attention crisis that we have is interrupting all of these three types of attention.

Do you ever feel empty and meaningless and alone?

Are you finding it difficult to complete deep tasks?

Almost everybody who you ask honestly will. 

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