Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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And I’m really troubled that this book needs to exist, and that we have to fight and scrap to make time for things that are truly important in the face of an overwhelming onslaught of digital ephemera that—oh, hell yeah! It’s one thing to tell this to knowledge workers who ride electric scooters to work and stream productivity podcasts into their AirBuds. While the simple, straightforward, and to-the-point approach made the content easily digestible and quick to read, it further exacerbated the feeling of the book being light on content. Nir Eyal understands the modern technologies of attention from the inside, and in this practical and timely book, he shares the secrets to regaining, and sustaining, the capacity to focus on what matters. We want companies to innovate and solve our evolving needs, yet we must also ask whether better products bring out our best selves.

Some might not fit your current situation and only become useful in the future when you're ready or your circumstances change. I read a lot of books like this but it's amazing how distractions creep back in and you have to remind yourself to take control of your own time.

The Pacific Crest Trail is renowned as one of the most arduous—and sometimes dangerous—hiking trails in America. At various points he is happy to construe all manner of environmental factors – relational, organisational, psychological, and cultural – as root causes of distraction, while treating as a ridiculous moral panic any suggestion that technologies that have literally been designed to distract – many by designers he has influenced – are themselves part of any structural problem. And the lessons in each chapter mostly rehash generic productivity advice - plan your day, set aside enough time for family, etc. Of course, neither side of that false dichotomy is correct; it is clearly the gun-person interface which is at issue. com, Nir's writing frequently appears in The Harvard Business Review, Inc, and Psychology Today among many others.

Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" (a finalist for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards) and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

Whilst this is great for companies who want people to consume their products, it is not great for the individuals who just can't navigate this world of distraction.

In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction.

I really, really, truly could not stop, and it took me a long time to realize it was a problem," she says now.