Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

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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. 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. One idea Nir does with his wife is to meet up with three other couples every two weeks for a picnic lunch and discuss one question ranging from practical (Should we push our kids to learn things they don't want, like learning a piano?

Indistractable is an essential book for people looking to make big things happen in the digital age. The best part of this entire book was his advice on setting guidelines on tech usage with your kids, partner, and your friends.Dissatisfaction and discomfort dominate our brain’s default state, but we can use them to motivate us instead of defeat us. Instead, we'll take a fresh look at what really motivates our behavior and learn why time management is pain management.

International best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. While removing external triggers is helpful in keeping distractions out, pacts are a proven way of reining ourselves in, ensuring we do what we say we're going to do.Imagine we’ve just discovered that a facial recognition algorithm is amplifying some racial inequality.