Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir EyalMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A book on how to not let your focus get distracted by what you don't want (like social media, TV etc).
There are several useful well-structured pieces of advice:
- timeboxing the time for what is important for you, including your relationships
- how to be efficient with your emails and messaging
- preventing distractions by the pacts (making it more difficult, losing something unless something else happens)
In particular, I liked the advice on spreading digital minimalism among the friends and others. We can motivate others by making it a taboo to check one’s phone when in the company of others. So, is you see someone on the phone during the social conversation, you can ask ‘I see you’re on the phone. Is everything OK?’
Overall, rather basic and little psychological research to provide substance to the "indistractable" model. Most of it was not novel to me. But the advice is good and useful.
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