Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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We want companies to innovate and solve our evolving needs, yet we must also ask whether better products bring out our best selves. I liked that Eyal admitted to falling victim to the dreaded time stealing monster himself and shares the solutions that helped him to overcome this. Overall, it offers a refreshingly different approach to time management than other books on the subject. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to preserve islands of focused attention – and good personal relationships – at a time when digital devices pull us away from our priorities and our loved ones. I thought that giving the why and underlying structure of distraction was perhaps the most important contribution.

But I promise you that by the time you finish this book, you will discover several breakthroughs that will change the way you manage distraction forever. To throw everything back on the individual and to ignore the structural causes of distraction is not only unscientific in its approach to human nature, it is unjust in its implications for society, and unimaginative in its capitulation to design. We'll also explore how to make just about any task enjoyable — not in the Mary Poppins way of "adding a spoonful of sugar," but by cultivating the ability to focus intensely on what we're doing. Though some of these things seem dull in comparison to today's enticements, distractions have and always will be facts of life. A 2015 review of 79 studies looking at the responses of over 16,000 volunteers found that people who have 'a positive and caring attitude .I got this message from Shane Parrish: “Oh I meant to tell you… I remember something you told me that I now share with everyone. Too many fillers, and the whole premise is flawed, as Johann Hari explains in chapter eight of Stolen Focus (a great book). However, because all human behaviour is motivated by the desire to minimise discomfort, the “root cause” of distraction therefore lies within us. Spending more time following our life values in traction and being aware of the triggers that pull us away from what's important can lead to a more productive and peaceful life. Here’s what you need to know to actually hack back distraction: there are only three causes of any distraction: an internal trigger, an external trigger, or a planning problem.

It's all in service of the idea that what you consistently do over time is going to make you the person you end up being.We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. The “something” he’s referring to is a simple question that my wife and I have posed to each other throughout our 22-year marriage. Also the overwhelming data about the improving focus of nurses when they were being constantly distracted and even when initially they resisted methods used to lower their distractibility.

Indistractable helped me realize technology was not the real reason I got distracted and struggled to get things done.I especially enjoyed the section he put in the book on how to help our children become less distracted.