Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

By Nir Eyal

*As heard on Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO*

'A must-read' Mark Manson

We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done.

Why does it feel like we're distracting our lives away?

In Indistractable, behavioural designer Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving you to distraction. Empowering and optimistic, this is the book that will help you design your time, realise your ambitions, and live the life you really want.

'If you value your time, your focus or your relationships, this book is essential reading' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind

'A guide to staying focused in an age of constant distraction' Guardian

'Exactly what most of us need in order to focus on what is important, rather than the dazzling, illuminated, unsatisfying distractions of modern life' Matt Haig

'Does exactly as it promises. Amazing' Chris Evans

'The best guide I've read for reclaiming our attention, our focus and our lives' Arianna Huffington

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Oct 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781526610232

Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, which drew on his years of experience in the video gaming and advertising industries. He has taught courses on applied consumer psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and at Fortune 500 companies. His writing on technology, psychology and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, the Atlantic, TechCrunch and Psychology Today. nirandfar.com

Reviews for Indistractable

[leeliederbach · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is a very good book. The problems are laid out briefly and realistically and the suggested solutions are explained well and are practically useful. I recommend to read it and test it personally.

[mert kuzgun · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Practical masterpiece to be indistractable. Easy to read and understand moreover easy to find examples in real life.

[michaelk12345-7109 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good book on re-framing your thinking around distractions and how to adjust technology and life to be less distracted.

[felicity1smith-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

simple and easy to follow. Will be interesting to see the long term effect. I liked his honesty and simplicity.

[benkline · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Sadly, I was hoping for a bit more from this. Theres a lot of "information" in this.... but... it all just seems so circular and more of a "hey this worked for me, you should try it" rather than actual, full powered help or concrete things. I know there is a lot of stuff he says to do, and a lot of practical information, it just never fully resonated with me. Perhaps I don't have a distraction problem as much as I thought; or perhaps I identify with my distraction problem and it doesn't bother me as much as I thought.

Or perhaps I'm in ignorance and have more of a problem than I am thinking I have. Its probably closer to this. But just so many of the ideas are fully impractical given my work, my lifestyle, and my family and the time based on my work schedule. The assumption in the book is basically everyone works a 9-5 M-F job and therefore this is how things need to be based on that. Which sadly, is not the case for everyone (myself included obviously).

Overall, there is some good in this, it just mostly fell flat with me. I did learn things, and theres some things I'll try out, but I'm not positive they'll work out (which is probably the worst mindset to have going in, but, we'll see how it all works out I guess.)