# Quote — Johann Hari, Stolen Focus

> There’s one key fact, he said, that every human being needs to understand– and everything else he was going to explain flows from that. ‘Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts’ in your conscious mind at once. That’s it. ‘We’re very, very single- minded.’

- Author: [Johann Hari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari.md)
- Book: [Stolen Focus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus.md)
- Page: 34
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Stolen_Focus_(2022)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/theres-one-key

## More from this book

> So if you check your texts often while trying to work, you aren’t only losing the little bursts of time you spend looking at the texts– you are also losing the time it takes to refocus afterwards, which can be much longer.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/so-if-you.md)

> For the average American, it’s three hours and fifteen minutes. We touch our phones 2,617 times every twenty- four hours.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/for-the-average.md)

> At the moment false claims spread on social media far faster than the truth, because of the algorithms that spread outraging material faster and further.

p. 129 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/at-the-moment.md)