354) Johann Hari: Reclaiming our capacities for deep thinking and intimate engagement
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"“There’s a lot of evidence that the world, and our experience of life, has massively sped up... We’re all speed-reading life now, and we’re living at a pace that makes deep thought impossible.”
In this episode, we welcome Johann Hari, a writer and journalist who has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian and other newspapers. His TED talks and NowThis viral video have been viewed almost 100 million times, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people.
Johann is the author of Stolen Focus, which was published in January of this year.
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(The musical offering in this episode is Debt by Luna Bec.)
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