“Attention is our most human need,” writes Chris Hayes, MSNBC host of “All In” and author of “ The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource .”

I was looking for self-help advice in Chris Hayes’ “The Sirens' Call,” an examination of the system widely monopolizing our time and eroding our focus: the attention economy. In recent years, my attention has felt continually besieged by a barrage of information,

The key here is paying attention and focusing on the things we all think matter, and not being whipped around constantly.” Chris Hayes joins Joy Reid to discuss his new book, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource,