Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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However, I steer clear of recommending well-worn techniques like mindfulness and meditation, not because they are not effective for some people, but because these methods have already been written about ad nauseam. We are bombarded at every turn with persuasive design that exploits our psychological weaknesses and often leads us into temptation, habituation and distraction. This book is full of interesting studies and facts to help you understand why you are being distracted and gives you simple solutions to help improve how you spend the time you have. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Better yet, tell the tech designers it’s not their fault, that it’s ultimately their users’ responsibility to manage distractions, and that even if their products do distract, the “root cause” of it lies in users themselves. This book is a gift for anyone looking to free up time so that they can live a better, more fulfilling, and less hectic life. But I found it too difficult to get around without GPS and meeting addresses saved inside my calendar app. Instead, we'll take a fresh look at what really motivates our behavior and learn why time management is pain management. Though it's not our fault distractions exist (as they always have) managing them is our responsibility.They can compete with other players and view their relative rankings on tournament-style leaderboards. Overall, it offers a refreshingly different approach to time management than other books on the subject.

International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley’s handbook for making technology habit-forming. Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention--helping you live the life you really want. So far, the closest thing to a bible for designers who have been enlisted in that war for our attention – those tasked with hacking human psychology to increase “engagement” with their products – has been Nir Eyal’s bestselling 2014 book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. The curse is not that Tantalus spends all eternity reaching for things just out of reach, but rather his obliviousness to the greater folly of his actions.This is a great, practical book that can help support you in building the skill to be indistractable. Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention – helping you live the life you really want. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Much easier to make good decisions when you identify as someone who eats healthily or isn't a smoker than if you identify as someone who has a sweet tooth or a smoker trying to give up.In a world filled with noise, Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results.