Johann Hari Knihy

Tak ako mnohí z nás, aj Johann Hari zistil, že neustále presúvanie pozornosti z mobilu na televízor či iné zariadenie a z jednej internetovej stránky na druhú je ubíjajúci a deprimujúci spôsob života. Vyskúšal najrôznejšie svojpomocné riešenia – dokonca sa na tri mesiace vzdal svojho telefónu –, ale zdalo sa, že nič nefunguje. Hari sa teda vydal na cestu okolo sveta, aby urobil rozhovory s poprednými odborníkmi na ľudskú pozornosť, a zistil, že všetko, čo si myslíme, že o tejto kríze pozornosti vieme, je nesprávne. Myslíme si, že naša neschopnosť sústrediť sa je osobným zlyhaním, keď nedokážeme vyvinúť dostatočnú silu vôle nad svojimi zariadeniami. Pravda je však ešte znepokojujúcejšia: našu pozornosť nám ukradli mocné vonkajšie sily, ktoré nás urobili zraniteľnými voči korporáciám odhodlaným prepadnúť našu pozornosť kvôli zisku. Hari zistil, že existuje dvanásť hlbokých príčin tejto krízy, od pozvoľného úpadku predstavivosti až po rastúce znečistenie prostredia, ktoré nás pripravili o časť pozornosti. V knihe Ukradnutá pozornosť predstavuje čitateľom disidentov zo Silicon Valley, ktorí sa naučili heknúť ľudskú pozornosť, a veterinárov, ktorí diagnostikujú psom ADHD. Skúma favelu v Riu de Janeiro, kde všetci stratili pozornosť mimoriadne surrealistickým spôsobom, a kanceláriu na Novom Zélande, ktorá objavila pozoruhodnú techniku na obnovenie produktivity pracovníkov. Čo je však kľúčové, Hari sa dozvedel, ako môžeme získať svoju pozornosť späť – ako jednotlivci, aj ako spoločnosť –, ak sme odhodlaní o ňu bojovať. Kniha Ukradnutá pozornosť mení diskusiu o pozornosti a ukazuje, ako ju možno získať späť.

Depresie a úzkosti sú v celom západnom svete prudko na vzostupe a trápia stále väčšie percento populácie. Tradičná psychiatria ich príčiny obyčajne pripisuje chemickej nerovnováhe v mozgu a ponúka jediné riešenie: psychofarmaká. Lenže každý, kto už tieto stavy zažil, veľmi dobre vie, že samotné lieky síce môžu priniesť chvíľkovú úľavu, ale nič nevyriešia, a tú hlbokú vnútornú bolesť i tak neodstránia. Investigatívny novinár a držiteľ niekoľkých ocenení, Johann Hari, sám od mladosti trpel depresiami a úzkosťami. Keď mal 31 rokov, rozhodol sa, že vyhľadá tých najväčších svetových expertov a zistí, aké sú skutočné príčiny tohto novodobého moru, ktorý sužuje našu spoločnosť. Na svojej ceste za pravdou precestoval neuveriteľných 65 000 kilometrov a stretol sa s tými najpovolanejšími. Postupne zistil, že existuje deväť základných príčin depresií a úzkostí, ktorých uvedomenie a pochopenie vedie k celkom iným riešeniam, než ako by sme očakávali – k riešeniam, ktoré konečne ponúkajú skutočnú nádej.

The book explores the alarming decline in our ability to focus, delving into the underlying causes of this issue. The author, known for previous bestsellers, offers insightful analysis and practical solutions to reclaim our attention in a world filled with distractions. It challenges readers to understand the impact of modern life on our cognitive capabilities and encourages a return to deeper engagement with our surroundings.

This shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is 'superb journalism and thrilling story-telling' - Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war -- to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs -- from cannabis to crack. The title itself comes from a formative story of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, sent as a boy to the pharmacy for a neighbor screaming in withdrawal -- an experience which led him to fear drugs without regard to context. Always we come back to the front lines in the U.S., where we instigated the war and exported it around the globe, but where change is also coming

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This amazing book will change your life' Elton John'Brilliant' Matt Haig'Wonderful' Hillary Clinton'A game-changer' Davina McCall'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' Zoe BallA radically new way of thinking about mental health. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari ́s journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions - ones that work.

'I learned so much' DAVINA McCALL 'Will help you think more clearly about eating, dieting, health and mental health' JONATHAN HAIDT Over the last decade, an extraordinary scientific breakthrough has taken place. A new kind of drug has arrived on the market, working in an unprecedented way to revolutionise weight loss and dieting. In 2023, Johann Hari began injecting himself with one of the weight loss drugs transforming how we look, feel and live. What began as a personal journey soon took him on an international investigation, tackling some of the most world-changing issues as he asked: Who should be taking these medications? How are they set to change not only the way we think about weight loss, but our economies? What are the benefits – and what are the risks? This is the book to read on the weight loss drugs taking over the world. 'Really important, and very necessary' STEPHEN FRY 'Compassionate, wise and mind-expanding . . . A must read' PHILIPPA PERRY