<b>Summary of Stolen Focus&nbsp;- Why You Can&#39;t Pay Attention--and &nbsp;How to Think Deeply Again - A Comprehensive Summary</b><br /><br />Walking in Memphis<br />Johann Heinz: My godson&#39;s obsession with Elvis Presley began when he was nine years old. He asked to know everything about Elvis, and so I jabbered out the rough outline of his inspiring, sad story. Without thinking, I agreed to take him to Graceland one day. When I met Adam, he had dropped out of school and spent almost all his waking hours in front of screens. He struggled to stay with a topic for more than a few minutes without jerking back to a screen or abruptly switching to another topic; he seemed to be whirring at the speed of Snapchat.<br />&nbsp;<br />I&#39;ll pay for us to go four thousand miles. But I can&#39;t do it if, when we get there, all you&#39;re going to do is stare at your phone, he says. &quot;We have to reconnect with something that matters to us.&quot; &quot;If you swipe left, you can see the Jungle Room to the left,&quot; I told a man and his wife as they looked at their iPads. There&#39;s no need for your screen. We&#39;re actually here.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;You don&#39;t have to see it on your screen,&rdquo; I said. I was fracturing like they were fracturing. I wondered how I was losing my ability to be present too. &ldquo;And I hated it,&rdquo; says author Roxanne Jones. In Paris, nobody looked at the Mona Lisa for more than a few seconds.<br />Activities that require longer forms of focus, like reading, have been in free fall for years. I wondered if the motto for our era should be: &ldquo;I tried to live, but I got distracted.&rdquo; Scientist Roy Baumeister says he is losing some of his ability to focus. He used to be able to sit for hours, reading and writing, but now &quot;it seems like my mind jumps around a lot more.&rdquo; The average American college student spends just 19 seconds a day focused on one thing, compared to an adult working in an office where the median stay-on-focus is three minutes.<br /><br /><b>Here is a Preview of What You Will Get:</b><br />?&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;A Detailed Introduction&nbsp;<br />?&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;A Comprehensive Chapter by Chapter Summary<br />?&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Etc<br /><br />Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.&nbsp;