Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

Published 2022 · 97,350 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again to read?

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again scores 43 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 42 out of 100
Plain journalistic vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Short, propulsive sentences.
Abstraction: 50 out of 100
Research reframed as a social and political argument.
Information density: 55 out of 100
Many interviews and studies, briskly handled.

How Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again is regarded

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again holds a literary regard score of 41 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Johann Hari