Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal

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Personal Growth & LeadershipPsychology & Mind

Most of what pulls you off task isn't your phone. Nir Eyal's case is that distraction runs mainly on the psychology behind it, the discomfort you're trying to escape, which is why he treats time management as pain management and giving up technology altogether as no practical answer.

Core ideas
  • Internal triggers first: Distraction starts with psychological discomfort, so you deal with those feelings before you blame the notifications and the devices around you.
  • Make time for traction: Timeboxing your calendar is the core technique, with external triggers and pacts against distraction completing the four-part model.
  • Beyond your own desk: Constant distraction at work signals a dysfunctional company culture, and the same model extends to relationships, family life and raising children.
Published2019
Pages290
ISBN9781948836531
ReadJan 2023

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