There are solid recommendations on new approaches to try as well as lots of useful and creative app recommendations to help you stay focused. Indistractable puts humans back where we belong when it comes to distraction: in the cockpit of our own lives. It’s a claim that, in any event, seems unfalsifiable – can’t any desire for change be framed as “dissatisfaction” with some status quo?

My eyes were still glued to my screen, tapping away at something that seemed important at the time but could definitely have waited. 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? 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. I'm coming clean today, telling this story for the very first time in its raw, ugly detail," she said.

Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us. When I was a child sitting in Sunday school in west Texas, I often wondered why God would engineer these temptations into our environment in the first place – much less lead us into them – if he was only going to enjoin us to avoid them later.

It is one of my favorite and best product/business books ever (and also useful for non-product people). His writing on technology, psychology and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. In Part One, you'll learn practical ways to identify and manage the psychological discomfort that leads us off track. In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction.

Live a fulfilling life by becoming aware and controling both the internal and external triggers that constantly bombard me.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. This is a great and most importantly practical book which helps you understand why you get distracted and what you can do about it. Also the overwhelming data about the improving focus of nurses when they were being constantly distracted and even when initially they resisted methods used to lower their distractibility. Can’t technologies, like many other external influences, increase our degree of inner discomfort and dissatisfaction?The first few chapters were compelling, my interest was building up, but as I moved further to the next chapters, it looked like the addition of content was only done with the purpose to increase the volume of the book. Dr Zoë Chance had earned a doctorate from Harvard and taught at the Yale School of Management when she made a shocking revelation to the crowded TEDx audience. It is really relatable and non-judgemental, the author himself admits to falling victim of so many of the struggles that we face today such as checking social media when spending time with his child. Another aspect I found frustrating about the writing style was the slightly condescending or braggadocious tone that occasionally cropped up (especially when it came to subtly flaunting his wealth). This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to preserve islands of focused attention – and good personal relationships – at a time when digital devices pull us away from our priorities and our loved ones.