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Johann Hari

Дата рождения: January 21, 1979 – Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Johann Hari is a British writer and journalist specializing in topics such as addiction, mental health, and technology’s impact on society. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including "Chasing the Scream," "Lost Connections," and "Stolen Focus," with his books sold in two million copies and translated into 40 languages.

Биография и Путь Автора

Johann Hari was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1979 to a Swiss father and Scottish mother; when he was a year old, his family moved to London, where he spent most of his formative years. Hari’s upbringing was marked by challenges, with periods of abuse and his mother’s illness impacting his childhood. Despite these early difficulties, Hari excelled academically, graduating from King’s College, Cambridge, with a double first in Social and Political Sciences.

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Loneliness isn't the physical absence of other people, he said—it's the sense that you're not sharing anything that matters with anyone else
-Lost Connections
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The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection
-Chasing the Scream
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It isn’t the drug that causes the harmful behavior—it’s the environment. An isolated rat will almost always become a junkie. A rat with a good life almost never will, no matter how many drugs you make available to him. As Bruce put it: he was realizing that addiction isn’t a disease. Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you—it’s the cage you live in
-Chasing the Scream
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You don’t get what you don’t fight for
-Stolen Focus
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To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe. When children can't pay attention, it's often a signal that they are under terrible stress
-Stolen Focus
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If you're depressed or anxious, you're not weak and you're not crazy – you're a human being with unmet needs
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced
-Stolen Focus
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So instead of seeing your depression and anxiety as a form of madness, I would tell my younger self—you need to see the sanity in this sadness. You need to see that it makes sense
-Lost Connections
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The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it
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Punishment—shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable—traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop
-Chasing the Scream

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"Johann Hari's 'Magic Pill' was praised by The Wall Street Journal for its 'measured approach' to the topic of weight loss drugs"

Wall Street Journal

"Johann Hari has written for The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Guardian, and his TED Talks have been viewed over 70 million times"

Penguin Random House

"Stuart J. Ritchie, psychologist, criticised Johann Hari's 'Stolen Focus' for over-relying on personal anecdotes and lacking strong evidence"

Spectator

"Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist whose work has spurred debates about addiction, depression, and attention"

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"Johann Hari's 'Stolen Focus' debuted at number seven on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list in February 2022"

New York Times

"Paul Nuki of The Telegraph described Johann Hari's coverage of the ultra-processed food industry in 'Magic Pill' as 'strong."

Telegraph

"Tom Chivers in The Guardian noted scientific inaccuracies in Johann Hari's 'Magic Pill,' calling out unsupported claims in the book"

Guardian

"Johann Hari's research in 'Stolen Focus' was described by the Financial Times as one of the 'best books' of 2022"

Financial Times

"Karlin Lillington of the Irish Times called Johann Hari's 'Stolen Focus' a 'more accessible companion' to work on surveillance capitalism"

Irish Times

"Matthew Sweet investigated statements in Johann Hari’s 'Stolen Focus' and accused him of misrepresenting some study results"

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