Stolen focus: why you can't pay attention-and how to think deeply again

Introduction: walking in Memphis

Cause One: the increase in speed, switching, and filtering

Cause Two: the crippling of our flow states

Cause three: the rise of physical and mental exhaustion

Cause four: the collapse of sustained reading

Cause five: the disruption of mind-wandering

Cause six: the rise of technology that can track and manipulate you (part one)

Cause six: the rise of technology that can track and manipulate you (part two)

Cause seven: the rise of cruel optimism

The first glimpses of the deeper solution

Cause eight: the surge in stress and how it is triggering vigilance

The places that figured out how to reverse the surge in speed and exhaustion

Causes nine and ten: our deteriorating diets and rising pollution

Cause eleven: the rise of ADHD and how we are responding to it

Cause twelve: the confinement of our children, both physically and psychologically

Conclusion: attention rebellion.