Johann Hari has managed to write a book which gives a look into some of the causes for what he quite excellently argues is an attention crisis, and how this attention crisis is affecting us as a species. The book has several interesting, intriguing and at times dystopian analyses but manages to end the book in an ultimately speaking hopeful way.

I highly recommend everyone I know to read this book, as it not only gives insight to why we as a species are becoming worse and worse at focusing, thinking deeply and becoming more mindless than mindful, but it also gives a general insight to what this does with us as a society and who it is that seemingly wants it to go this way.

If you are even just partly interested in the social sciences and psychology behind focus, behind social media, behind the ever increasing speeding up of everything in our society or just about why we find it so hard to be able to just sit on the bus without frantically scrolling on our phones, than this book is a must-read.

It is also worth noting that this is not a traditional self help book, like many might think because of the cover and title. It is more an analysis of what has gone wrong, why, how it can be changed, and why individual efforts aren't enough in this situation; while the book does give insight and tips that fit in the self-help genre (many that I'm using and will use as well), the book itself points more towards 'Society needs to change. Now.' than 'You are lazy and need to change.'