Fix Your Attention Span
by Anders Christensen
"It's not that you can't focus. It's that everything around you was built to make sure you don't."
Anders Christensen is one of the pen names behind Foxtome's writing — the slower, more biological voice in the Foxtome catalogue. The problem this book addresses is not new, but the scale of it is: the average knowledge worker now lasts forty-seven seconds on a single screen before pulling away. Fix Your Attention Span is built on the simple position that this is not a discipline problem — it is a biology problem, in conditions that no nervous system was designed for. The book walks through what attention actually is, why it has collapsed, and a seven-day plan to bring it back. Each day adds one practice. None of them is dramatic. Taken together, they cover almost every lever the modern nervous system has for adjusting its own attentional state.
What you'll get
- The two-block daily architecture that lets focus chemistry actually assemble
- A 90-second visual practice that makes any focused work easier to begin
- The cold + caffeine + meditation stack that raises baseline focus for hours
- A 13-minute daily meditation backed by 8 weeks of measurable change
- The day-7 practice (NSDR) that recovers attention without sleep
About the author
Anders Christensen lives and writes in Copenhagen, where the winters are long and the light, when it comes, is honest. He spent several years reading the research on attention — Gloria Mark on the fragmentation of focus, Andrew Huberman on the molecular layer of arousal, Wendy Suzuki on what short daily meditation does to the brain, Anna Lembke on dopamine and the long-term consequences of constant stimulation — before he could write anything useful about it.
His work is concerned with the slow, daily practice by which a modern nervous system can be tended back toward focus. He does not promise transformation. He promises something smaller and, he thinks, more useful: a few weeks of careful, modest practice, after which the days feel quieter.