Nir founded and sold two companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. While I appreciated the “Remember This” section at the end of each chapter because it made highlighting my ebook easy, it almost felt unnecessary because of how short each chapter was and how little content was covered. If you're the kind of person who likes to learn by example, and you want to see these tactics in action first, feel free to read Parts Five and on, then come back through the first four parts for a deeper explanation. The book covers a lot from being more focused at work to parenting to relationships and I learned several new ideas. To throw everything back on the individual and to ignore the structural causes of distraction is not only unscientific in its approach to human nature, it is unjust in its implications for society, and unimaginative in its capitulation to design.

The author offers some helpful behavioral and time-management strategies to help us re-engage with real life .Those who read and apply the principles in Indistractable and those who wish they had read it sooner. Just as eating too much junk leads to health problems, the overuse of devices can also have negative consequences. In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction. I do not plan to stop using Apple News but am defiantly being more selective and delaying my reading to a later time. Kamenetz strongly advises that 'screens and sleep don't mix' and implores parents to keep all digital devices out of kids rooms at nighttime and to shut down screens at least an hour before bedtime.

They can compete with other players and view their relative rankings on tournament-style leaderboards. A relatively quick and easy read - short chapters with summaries at the end - which gives helpful ideas and tips for not getting distracted. But _Indistractable_ straddles an uncomfortable divide between providing an overview of the various ways in which we are distractable and suggesting changes that the reader can implement. You’ll learn powerful strategies to help you recognize and overcome your personal triggers and weak areas and be held accountable for making the changes needed to become the most effective version of yourself. It's all in service of the idea that what you consistently do over time is going to make you the person you end up being.Being interested in psychology I particularly appreciated the parts in which he described the psychology behind the forming of habits, how to break them and how just being free of them will impact our lives for the better.

As a lifelong procrastinator, I'm painfully aware of how much productivity-related advice there is out there and how little of it is actually helpful.Imagine we’ve just discovered that a facial recognition algorithm is amplifying some racial inequality.