Title: Indistractable Pdf How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
'Exactly what most of us need in order to focus on what is important, rather than the dazzling, illuminated, unsatisfying distractions of modern life' MATT HAIG
'A guide to staying focused in an age of constant distraction' GUARDIAN
'Masses of really useful arsenal and some very interesting studies about how to be less distracted in the world' PANDORA SYKES
'Now there's a way we can regain our ability to focus' RED
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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.
Interesting new research combined with some proven techniques There are really two logical parts to this book, as there are to most advice books of the type.The first part tells you all about the problem. Often that's just constant repetition but this author thankfully avoided that trap, and instead presents original research and tons of interesting material about distraction, the nature of it, and why the human condition tends toward distraction. Good research and good writing, which gives us a number of clues as to how we can fight distraction or at least learn to live with it and keep it out of the way.The second part is actionable advice, some new and some more on the classic side.What's new? An interesting chapter on how culture and distraction are related in the office environment, with a case study on what to do about it. Another interesting chapter on how to train your children to be less susceptible to distraction.The classic advice is what you'd expect: ways to tame social media and other electronic distractions, and so on. That's not new but it's certainly valid, and is repeated in the context of the research presented in the first part of the book, giving it a fresh aspect.The idea of "pacts" is also introduced. These are often called "contracts" in other literature on this topic, but the idea is the same. You make a more or less formal commitment to do/not do something, with the idea that this will give you impetus to make improvements. Verdicts are mixed on this; it works for some people, not as much for others.However, there is one type of pact introduced that I think is most unfortunate in that it unnecessarily reduces the credibility of an otherwise very credible treatise. The idea, in essence, is to make a money pact. If you fail to keep the terms of the pact, you have to set fire to a hundred dollar bill.I've seen this idea before, and it just doesn't make sense. You haven't got the willpower to avoid distraction on your own, but you've got the willpower to burn a hundred dollar bill?And therein is the one failing of the book: it never really pinpoints willpower as the problem with distraction. I think this was a bit of a missed opportunity. With all of the author's fine research, he could have attacked this issue head on.So what's my bottom line on this book? It's absolutely worth reading and will give you tremendous insight into the nature of distraction. It will give you a plethora of ideas and techniques to help you avoid distraction (just ignore the money-burning thing), and those ideas are demonstrated in a number of environments. I'll go four stars on this book.(This review revised 04 October 2019 as I believe my original review was too severe.)The book that finally gave me the aha moment about distraction I read the pre-release of Indistractable at an important time in my life: as an early stage startup founder, I have no time to be distracted. In Nir's words, being indistractable is "finally doing what you say you will do." Starting a company is the ultimate test of doing what you say you will do, and I've seen major improvements in my work and life since reading it.As a person who values hard work, competence, and personal growth, I have studied lots of books, articles, and other media during my early adult years. I've read all the way from the classic works to the latest and greatest. Indistractable is the first book that gave me the aha moment about distraction: it starts from within.I love technology, but I don't love when it keeps me from doing work that matters to me. In the past, I have taken drastic, Luddite measures to control its grasp on my attention. These techniques worked for a while, but eventually I always got back to the same place: my mind and my attention wanted to be elsewhere, not on the task at hand.In Indistractable, Nir goes straight to the root of the problem of distraction. It hurts to read that the problem is you, but it's important to hear. For me, this was a "why didn't anyone ever tell me this before?" kind of moment. My struggles finally made sense.Nir goes on to methodically lay out a model for managing both internal and external distractions. While the book does have some specific tactics, the most important takeaways for me were timeless messages. Managing distraction is more about managing pain and emotion ("time management is pain management", as one chapter says) than managing the notification settings on your iPhone. Sure, that helps, but not if you can't manage the pain and discomfort that's keeping you from doing what you care about.While I'm still a work in progress, I have noticed a distinct difference in my attention and work in the month since I finished reading the book. Among many examples of improvement, what stands out to me is a new ability to catch myself right when an internal trigger for distraction goes off in my mind. Indistractable gave me an extra fraction of a second to catch myself, refocus, and get back to doing what I say I will do. That's subtle but important: in my case, it might be the difference that finally lets me keep the promises I've made to myself and others.
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