Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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If you're faced with a boring task, try and get curious about some part of it. Look for a way to add fun to it. In Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal has assembled very easy-to-read, realistic explanations of the external and internal prompts which compel human behavior. Those analyses include tools for his readers to break unproductive habits and build healthy habits. Not everyone is going to agree with his definitions of "unproductive" or "healthy." That's OK. Not everyone is going to be able to use every suggestion. Also OK. What's critical is that you come to the effort with curiosity and a willingness to experiment with the concepts. As Eyal's title suggests, he is predominantly concerned with technological distractions.

Shifting where and when you use potentially distracting apps to your desktop instead of your phone; The chapter around identity was interesting. 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.

Distraction

Being indistractable is about learning to channel master feelings of dissatisfaction to make things better.

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. adhd خیلی علاقه پیدا کردم و شرایط الان و ترسناکه که تا مدتها علائم adhd باید از کودکی دیده میشد (به طور خاص تا ۱۲سالگی) ولی امروزه با مصرف خیلی زیاد از گوشیهای همراه الان بزرگسالها هم دارن علائم این اختلال رو پیدا میکنن و انگار باعث بوجود اومدن اختلال تمرکز تو خودشون میشن. واقعا کنترل زیاده روی تو استفاده‌ از اسمارت فون ها و ... الان از اهمیت خیلی خیلی بالایی برخورداره.

Another side affect of this book is that my desire to drink alcohol and other compulsive behavior has just disappeared, and I wasn't even particularly focusing on that. It just happened as a by product, and I'm so happy. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"? We can manage distractions that originate from within by thinking differently about the trigger, the task, and our temperament. Furthermore, by reimagining an uncomfortable internal trigger, such as an urge to google something, we can disarm it. Helpful? Yeah, sort of. Could it be condensed down to a much shorter version and make the same points? Like every self-help book, emphatically yes. To master internal triggers, learn how to deal with discomfort, observe urges and allow them to dissolve, and reimagine the trigger or task.