Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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Nir Eyal: Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (2019)

300 pages

English language

Published Aug. 19, 2019

ISBN:
978-1-948836-53-1
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3 stars (14 reviews)

2 editions

This book is all about focusing

4 stars

This is a solid book about focusing. All angles of being able to focus. It's pretty deep, and will require re-reading to review some of the points that you may be working on.

Having read a good deal of self-help/productivity books, very little of this content was new to me. Most of these topics he covers have been said elsewhere, usually in pieces though. The value of this book is it's focus on focus. haha

It's broken into small chapters of several pages each, and each chapter has a summary of the main points. Good for the focus devotee who isn't there yet.

It has 7 parts/themes each with several chapters. Part 3 as "Hack Back External Triggers" was my favorite and most valuable part. The last three parts weren't as valuable to me, being Work, Children and Other Relationships. Work because, it's rare that one can impact the work …

Review of 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A nice little reminder of the dangers of distraction with some tips on how to fix it, all of which I listened to on audiobook while doing other things.

Some of these other Goodreads reviews make it sound like I missed out and should've read one of his other books. It has made me rethink my own rating immediately.

Review of 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

The premise here is: we are also responsible for being addicted to technology so the author discusses some tactics to make us less prone to use it mindlessly. But, I don't think it is for everyone. There are some drastic measures that I think might work for some.
I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.

Review of 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was a good book. I thought that some of the tactics proposed were pretty obvious, but the section about internal triggers was helpful. Each chapter starts with a short anecdote, then an explanation of the main points. The takeaways are summarized at the end of each chapter, and the main takeaway of each chapter is summarized at the end of the book. This makes it a quick read.

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