How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
by Nir Eyal
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American computer scientist, academic lecturer and writer
Recommended by 10 notable people, including Adam Grant and Balaji S. Srinivasan
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Indistractable reads like a product manager's manual for your own focus. Eyal breaks distraction into internal triggers, external triggers, and planning traps, offering hacks to schedule time, tame notifications, and make pacts. The practical approach is immediately usable if you're already sold on time-blocking. The limitation is an optimization-heavy tone that frames family and meaningful work as efficiency problems, leaving little room for messiness. It's tactical, not philosophical.
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You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and profess...
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Recommended by 13 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Personal Development.
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“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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