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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal with Julie Li
Paperback
9781526610201
'A guide to staying focused in an age of constant distraction' – Guardian
We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done.
Why does it feel like we're distracting our lives away? In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal shows what life could look like if you followed through on your intentions. Instead of suggesting a digital detox, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction, and teaches you how to make pacts with yourself to keep your brain on track. Indistractable is a guide to making decisions and seeing them through.
Empowering and optimistic, this is the book that will help you design your time, realise your ambitions, and live the life you really want.
Contents:
An Important Note
Introduction: From Hooked to Indistractable
1. What’s Your Superpower?
2. Being Indistractable
Part 1: Master Internal Triggers
3. What Motivates Us Really?
4. Time Management Is Pain Management
5. Deal with Distraction from Within
6. Reimagine the Internal Trigger
7. Reimagine the Task
8. Reimagine Your Temperament
Part 2: Make Time for Traction
9. Turn Your Values into Time
10. Control the Inputs, Not the Outcomes
11. Schedule Important Relationships
12. Sync with Stakeholders at Work
Part 3: Hack Back External Triggers
13. Ask the Critical Question
14. Hack Back Work Interruptions
15. Hack Back Email
16. Hack Back Group Chat
17. Hack Back Meetings
18. Hack Back Your Smartphone
19. Hack Back Your Desktop
20. Hack Back Online Articles
21. Hack Back Feeds
Part 4: Prevent Distraction with Pacts
22. The Power of Precommitments
23. Prevent Distraction with Effort Pacts
24. Prevent Distraction with Price Pacts
25. Prevent Distraction with Identity Pacts
Part 5: How to Make Your Workplace Indistractable
26. Distraction is a Sign of Dysfunction
27. Fixing Distraction Is a Test of Company Culture
28. The Indistractable Workplace
Part 6: How To Raise Indistractable Children (And Why We All Need Psychological Nutrients)
29. Avoid Convenient Excuses
30. Understand Their Internal Triggers
31. Make Time for Traction Together
32. Help Them With External Triggers
33. Teach Them to Make Their Own Pacts
Part 7: How To Have Indistractable Relationships
34. Spread Social Antibodies Among Friends
35. Be an Indistractable Lover