are generally satisfied with how you spend your time.

beat themselves up for not being productive.

struggle to align their time-spent with their values.

have tried website blockers and the like but still get distracted.

He only layers on the website-blocker advice after developing solid fundamentals, which is where it should be. He claims, 'only by understanding our pain can we begin to control it and find better ways to deal with negative urges.'Įyal develops his model and shows you how to become an indistractable person in a clear way, with a good mix of ideas and tactics. Eyal dives straight in to the psychology behind distraction, noting that most of our behavior is caused by pain avoidance, not pleasure seeking.

I was pleased to see that Eyal had gone beyond simple tactics and developed a deeper, more thorough model of distraction.

One of my coaching clients wanted to try some of the workbook exercises included with Indistractable (available here). Ultimately you find a way around the blocker, or get distracted by something else. Not that those tools aren't useful, but they only mask symptoms instead of addressing root causes. On first glance I thought it'd be another collection of tips and tricks for avoiding your phone-block websites, turn off push notifications, go live in a log cabin to reclaim your attention and your life from being hacked by evil social media platforms. Here Nir Eyal explores what it means to be Indistractable, and how to achieve that in our hyper-connected world. Tree books are books that lay out a framework of ideas.

Indistractable by nir eyal