Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Indistractable makes for a fascinating, insightful and helpful read. Nir Eyal’s deep and detailed understanding of why we’re distracted makes it easy to address distraction. It helps normalise distraction as a human tendency v/s a flaw that we need to work on. He explains with patience, dexterity and research how distraction is not a technology issue rather a problem within us. Nir offers simple, practical and effective tools to manage distractions. The tools helped me create spaciousness and improve productivity. The solutions he offers are sustainable. I’ve been able to break unhealthy habits and develop healthier ones. That has helped me prioritise what matters to me in life and work. It's helped reduce the sense of guilt, self-blame and failure that comes with distraction. The piece on kids’ overuse of technology is fantastic. The best part is that most of it applies to adults too. Through the book, he shares powerful, convincing and actionable methods to cope with distraction in the modern world. That makes this book delightfully practical to apply and experience shifts. Like that he’s sincere and amazingly earnest with the knowledge he shares. His knowledge comes from deep and wide research, not only his lived experience. Most of what he shares in this book was fresh and new to me. If you’re keen on reducing distractions and focusing on your dreams, this one is a great pick!

Coming from the author who gave us the "Hooked" model, this book is based on the perspective from the other side of the river bank - how to "unhook" or get "Indistractable"! A simple, breezy read on how to apply a 4-part framework to isolate, identify, understand, & overcome our distractions Nir Eyal has expressed his simplicity, humility, and vulnerability while writing the book, as the chapters can easily relate to what every human is experiencing in her/is life today. Many of the situations described with how we get distracted is nothing unheard or inexperienced for many of us. However, the approach to gain traction on these and how to overcome the distractions to gain focus in anything that we do, has been powerfully brought out with examples by Nir What I liked the most about this book are 3 things, 1. The "Remember this", a short summary on each chapter, 2. Chapter takeaways at the end of the book, and 3. The Templates & reference material, available both at the end of the book as well as at nirandfar.com Once again, thanks to Nir & Julie for creating a wonderful reading experience!

I purchased this book after I heard about it while browsing, and I have just started reading, and I was just reading 8 or 9th chapter, and I was really impressed by this book, and everyone should read this to become indistractable, and thanks to the author for this book.

I had been watching u tube all the time when I made new year resolution to break the habit. Applying these principle helps . Helps you avoid common mistakes we do while trying to avoid devices on our own. Who can explain it better than who have designed some of the addictive features , refer hooked by same author, good read if you are product manager. Step by step guid to follow and control your addiction. It is journey from “I can’t “ to “I don’t “. Make it ur decision rather than compulsion. He breaks the puzzle from inside as he know which features keep us engaged, which feature leverage our tendency to avoid complex task and jump on to phone. If u know how to leverage human behaviour to induce addiction , this author can give you panache to break it too. Overall very good book if you want control your addiction. Those who need simple to read on this topic yet great alternative, try blisfulness by Nandan Nilekani. If you are looking for productivity at your workplace I would recommend “A world without Email” by Cal Newport .

This is a great book. Covers ideas and little tricks to help you become more focused. Covers most important areas of life

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Good work again. A lot of research work is put into this book. I was waiting for the book. This is one book that will help if we want to reduce distraction from your life and give yourself the best chance to live your life to the fullest. Good hacks provided by the author and these are very useful. Some of the hacks we already might be knowing but it will re brush. So, worth reading. Also, we can be members of the Author's Indistractable forum and share your hacks to reduce distraction from your life. I like the 10 minutes hack the most. Thanks, Nir, It was good work.

This book provides a novel and quite interesting ways of dealing with distraction in our day to day lives. I was feeling this pressure of distraction while acquiring a new skill within a really short span of time and my struggles with distraction really dampened my spirits. So I turned to this book to see if it can help me improve my output. The four key take-aways - Master your internal trigger by surfing the urge and 10 min rule, Remove external triggers and replace them with things you want to do, PIE (Price, Individuality and Effort) pacts to gain traction and lastly Timeboxing the time even for distraction. I will not say I have become completely indistractable but I have embarked on a journey with the help of this book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is on a journey to work upon him/ herself to become better version as each day passes.

Cuando lo compré esperaba que fuera un buen libro y resultó siendo un libro buenísimo!! Estas son algunas cosas que me gustaron: 1. Los capítulos son bastante cortos (3-7 páginas) por lo que facilita bastante la lectura 2. Está basado en una extensa investigación que realizaron el autor y muchas personas más, con respaldo científico 3. Trae historias y ejemplos, lo cual lo hace más entretenido 4. El autor explica bastante bien los conceptos y no se enrrolla con cosas inecesarias Si te interesa aprender a mejorar tu enfoque y evitar las distracciones tienes que leerlo

I read this book, my wife read it, and we both absolutely adored it. Indistractable is one of those rare books that genuinely makes you stop, reflect, and change how you live and work. It doesn’t blame technology or preach unrealistic discipline—instead, it offers practical, thoughtful, and very human insights into why we get distracted and how to regain control of our attention. What we especially appreciated is how actionable the ideas are. The concepts are easy to understand, grounded in real life, and applicable both professionally and personally. We found ourselves discussing chapters together and consciously changing small daily habits that made a real difference almost immediately. This is not just a productivity book—it’s a guide to living more intentionally. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to focus better, work smarter, and be more present in life. Great add value! --R

Very few books have given me this much to think about. This has a complete reframing of many things that we take for granted. It’s filled with big insights like the opposite of distraction is traction (obvious when it’s said) as well as a ton of practical techniques you can use immediately. It’s all done in an engaging style that makes this a must-read book.

Libro en Inglés, reseña en español jejej. El tema del libro es cómo afrontar las distracciones de la vida y alcanzar tus metas,aborda diferentes temas sobre Marketing, Psicología, desarrollo personal,... . NO es el tipico libro vende humos y refrito de coaching personal y demás, aprendes bastantes INSIGHT y trucos para la vida misma, de forma amena, directa y coherente, NO se va por las ramas y repite temas , basa la información en diferentes estudios veridicos que cita los estudios e investigaciones . Además resume en cada capitulo la info tratada, a modo de receta de referencia y facilitar su puesta en marcha . Es un libro que recomiendo a todos mis amigos y familiares.

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