![]() ![]() Still, he takes us through how he stitches together a plausible story of our unravelling concentration, including a brief description of why multitasking is a myth, the cost of switching from one task to another.Īn earnest visit to a professor here, privileged weeks of solitude away from distractions there. ![]() Researchers have worked on this exact hunch for years. I always think of the word hunch to describe that perfect intersection of understanding context and intuiting what will come next. He makes a few eureka claims, including his “hunch that there’s a crisis” of concentration. Instead, he recycles everything we have read about the impact of the internet but does it with style and appropriate attribution, in the genre of “non-fiction book designed to answer contemporary questions without enough scientific evidence”. The theme of fractured concentration is one with which I am pretty familiar (one might say, a living lab specimen) and so far, no one has come out to accuse him of plagiarism. ![]() In this latest book, Hari attributes widely and apparently well. ![]()
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