Stolen Focus

Am I Lazy or Overstimulated? | Monday Advice

Deep Questions with Cal Newport, 22 June 2026. The book comes up at 20 min 27 sec in. Said by Cal Newport.

Cal Newport reads aloud a Reddit essay whose author recommends Stolen Focus by Johan Hari as "not a self-help book, more of an investigation into why attention is collapsing at a population level." Cal Newport does not add his own endorsement of the book, moving on immediately to note that the same Reddit passage recommends his own book Digital Minimalism.

Listen to this episode ↗︎