Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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What example are we setting for them if our loving faces are replaced by the tops of our heads as we constantly stare into our screens? And Eyal can make people who get distracted by adversarial design less inclined to demand more from their technologies, and more inclined to demand “superpowers” of themselves that their all-too-human limitations render them unable to meet.

The author offers some helpful behavioral and time-management strategies to help us re-engage with real life . However, because all human behaviour is motivated by the desire to minimise discomfort, the “root cause” of distraction therefore lies within us.In The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley points out that the Lord’s Prayer has 50 words, and six of them are dedicated to imploring God not to lead us into temptation. Of course, neither side of that false dichotomy is correct; it is clearly the gun-person interface which is at issue. We agree that aimlessly scrolling our social media feeds is not as enriching as being with real friends in real life.

Let go of this belief as it encourages you to believe you have a reason to quit because you have used up your willpower. To say so would be a digital version of the odious “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” deflection. As a lifelong procrastinator, I'm painfully aware of how much productivity-related advice there is out there and how little of it is actually helpful. 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. They're all around us — from cookies beckoning when we open the kitchen cabinet to a chatty coworker keeping us from finishing a time-sensitive project.We are bombarded at every turn with persuasive design that exploits our psychological weaknesses and often leads us into temptation, habituation and distraction. I do not plan to stop using Apple News but am defiantly being more selective and delaying my reading to a later time. Can’t technologies, like many other external influences, increase our degree of inner discomfort and dissatisfaction? It's a timely and pretty important book as the modern age of technology appears to have become like opium to some. There, he found himself wading in a pool of water, while above his head dangled a tree ripe with fruit ready for the picking.

In a world filled with noise, Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results. It helps you actually understand the triggers causing your behaviour and provides a very realistic way of being able to set the path to becoming indistractable. 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. This argument is important in part because it carries significance for wider conversations about the ethics of persuasive design, and in part because it is so profoundly, yet so subtly, wrong.

deep work و willpower instinct و atomic habits رو خیلی خیلی بیشتر دوست داشتم و به نظرم مفیدتر بودن و خوندن هر سه تاشون تقریبا همه‌ی چیزایی‌که لازم دارین رو بهتون میده. Certainly pre-planning can prevent distraction, but as we are not highly efficient robots with consistent programming which we adhere to, it would have been more helpful to obtain new ideas on how to slowly adapt behavioral changes (like in Newport's Digital Minimalism), or how to further develop the desire to focus and commit to your personal driving motivations (like in McKeown's Essentialism, and others). 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.