Johann Hari

Author and Journalist · 1 appearance on the record.

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Johann Hari is a British author and journalist. He is known for writing books including Magic Pill and Stolen Focus.

11statements → 4claims → 4claims resolved → 25%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.18/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Johann argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Average US Office Worker Focuses on Tasks for Only 3 Minutes
“You know, the average American office worker now focuses on any one task for only three minutes.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 2:38 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hari: Recovering Focus After an Interruption Takes 23 Minutes
“Think about Professor Michael Posner at the University of Oregon. Discovered if you're interrupted, it takes you on average, 23 minutes to get back to the level of focus you had before you were interrupted.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 20:51 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Johann Hari on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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Assertion Supported
Average US Office Worker Focuses on Tasks for Only 3 Minutes
“You know, the average American office worker now focuses on any one task for only three minutes.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 2:38 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Insight
Hari: Attention Decline Is Systemic Theft, Not Individual Collapse
“And what I learned crucially is that your attention didn't collapse. Your attention has been stolen from you by some very big forces, and once you understand that, it opens up a very different set of solutions.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 3:35 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Assertion Contradicted
Hari: Recovering Focus After an Interruption Takes 23 Minutes
“Think about Professor Michael Posner at the University of Oregon. Discovered if you're interrupted, it takes you on average, 23 minutes to get back to the level of focus you had before you were interrupted.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 20:51 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Opinion
Hari: Democratic Citizens Can Reclaim Attention From Big Tech Platforms
“We are not medieval peasants begging at the court of King Zuckerberg for a few little crumbs of attention, right? We are the free citizens of democracies, and we own our own minds, and we can take them back if we want to.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 28:13 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Insight
Hari: Disrupting Short-Term Focus Undermines Long-Term Goal Achievement
“And if you get to, if your spotlight gets disrupted enough, then this higher level, your starlight, also gets disrupted.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 7:08 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Assertion Contradicted
Hari: People Now Sleep 20% Less Than a Century Ago
“We sleep 20% less than we did a century ago.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 10:45 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Assertion Partly supported
Hari: Only 15% of People Wake Up Feeling Refreshed
“Only 15% of us now wake up feeling refreshed.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 11:05 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Disclosure
Hari Locks His Phone in a Timed Safe Four Hours Daily
“I use that four hours a day. I will not sit down and watch a film with my partner unless we both imprison our phones. When my friends come around for dinner, everyone's got to put their phone in the phone jail, right?”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 13:54 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Insight
Hari: Eliminating Digital Distractions Requires Filling the Behavioral Vacuum
“When you leave some of these distractions behind, even if you do it in a less drastic way than I did, you create a vacuum, and you've got to fill that vacuum with something, or you'll just slide back.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 16:47 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Insight
Hari: Flow States Are the Deepest and Easiest Form of Attention
“Flow states are simultaneously The deepest form of attention that a human being can provide. And once you get into it, they're the least difficult form of attention.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 17:40 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Insight
Hari: Psychological Flow Begins at the Edge of Your Comfort Zone
“Flow begins at the edge of your comfort zone. You will hugely increase your chances of tapping in to this very deep source of flow that we have within us.”
Johann Hari May 19, 2022 ▶ 23:13 HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
HIBT Lab! Stolen Focus: Johann Hari May 19, 2022 19m
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