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.