“Focus Hijacked gives readers what the distracted age urgently requires: a practical way to reclaim attention without shame, extremes, or fantasy. This is a clear and compassionate guide for anyone who wants to do meaningful work again.”Paul SheppardFounder, Mindset Change UK
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Focus Hijacked
How Digital Life Steals Your Attention—And How to Take It Back
A practical, neuroscience-informed guide to reclaiming your attention, restoring clarity, and focusing on what matters most.
Reset. Release. Rebuild.
Take Back Your Attention
Your mind isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do—decide what matters right now. The problem is that modern technology has learned to hijack your focus to keep you reactive, distracted, and emotionally off-balance. Over time, the pressure leads to scattered attention and the sense that you’re not fully here.
Focus Hijacked: How Digital Life Steals Your Attention—And How to Take it Back is a practical, neuroscience-informed guide to mastering the brain’s Salience Network—your built-in spotlight operator that decides what you focus on moment by moment. Through clear explanations and simple daily practices, you will learn the Salience Method to Reset, Release, and Rebuild your mind with greater clarity, awareness, and purpose. Guided by the Five Fuels, you will sharpen your mind by understanding its Focus Code and releasing the Five DRAINs that stand in the way of your best self. In a world designed to distract you, this book shows you the path back to wakefulness, resilience, and success.
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Endorsements for Focus Hijacked
“Focus Hijacked reveals how the chaos of modern life commandeers our attention, distorts our mental habits, and leaves us feeling lonely, anxious, and overwhelmed. Dr. Hosein Kouros-Mehr offers practical strategies for reclaiming focus, regulating emotional responses, and living with greater clarity and intention. Insightful and timely, this book is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand—and regain control of—their mind. Highly recommended.”Louis Kirby, MDAuthor and internationally recognized research neurologist
“Focus Hijacked is a timely and compassionate guide to reclaiming our most precious inner resource: our attention. Dr. Hosein Kouros-Mehr skillfully bridges neuroscience and practical wisdom, illuminating how our digital environment shapes our thoughts, emotions, and sense of self. Through accessible practices that cultivate awareness, presence, and intentional choice, this book offers readers a powerful path toward greater clarity, balance, and wholeness.”Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir, MDPsychiatrist and author of Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness
“The ability to think strategically begins with the ability to direct your attention. In Focus Hijacked, Dr. Hosein Kouros-Mehr reveals how digital life commandeers this vital resource—and provides a clear, practical method for taking it back. Grounded in neuroscience and designed for real life, this book will help you think more clearly, act more intentionally, and focus on what matters most.”Rich HorwathCEO, Strategic Thinking Institute & New York Times bestselling author of Strategic
“In a world overflowing with distractions, the ability to give our full attention—to our work, our goals, and especially to other people—has become a competitive advantage. Focus Hijacked offers a practical, science-based framework for reclaiming that attention and using it with greater intention. Dr. Kouros-Mehr has written a timely guide for anyone who wants to think more clearly, connect more meaningfully, and make a greater impact.”Dr. Ivan MisnerFounder of BNI and New York Times bestselling author
“Focus is the Holy Grail of excellence and well-being in almost every human endeavor. The problem is that the human brain isn’t particularly well-wired for it.Scott G. HalfordWall Street Journal bestselling author of Activate Your Brain, and brain-based leadership expert
In Focus Hijacked, Dr. Kouros-Mehr changes the equation. He brings compelling neuroscience to life, makes it fascinating and understandable, busts the myths that undermine our focus, and, most importantly, turns the science into tools we can use.
Focus Hijacked is a field guide for taking back control of your attention, strengthening it, and putting it to work in your pursuit of excellence and well-being in a world seemingly designed to steal it from you.”
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