Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
by Nir Eyal
View on GoodreadsEyal's argument — interesting given he also wrote Hooked, the playbook for building habit-forming products — that distraction is mostly internal, that "distraction" and "traction" share the root word, and that the discipline is choosing what you're moving toward.
Core ideas
- Four-part framework: master internal triggers (uncomfortable feelings you flee), make time for traction (schedule what matters), hack back external triggers (notifications, environment), prevent distraction with pacts (precommitments).
- Most distraction is the escape behavior of an underlying internal discomfort — solve for the discomfort, not the symptom.
- The "schedule your values" move — if it's important and it's not on your calendar, you don't really mean it.
Published2019
Pages290
ISBN9781948836531
ReadJan 2023
