Indistractable Book Review by Jeff Bush

By Nir Eyal and Julie Li 

• We must stop doing the wrong things, but we must start doing the right things. 

• We already know what to do, but we don’t know how to stop being distracted. 

• If your superpower could be being indistractable, you could spend more time with family, get more work done, and accomplish more. 

• Distractions will always exist, but managing them is our responsibility. 

• Most people do not want to admit that distractions are an escape from reality. 

• Time management is pain management. 

• People go to extremes to not be bored. 

• If we want to master distraction, we must learn to deal with discomfort. 

• While we can’t control all the thoughts that pop into our head, we can control what we do with them. 

• You it can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it’s distracting you from.

• Planning ahead is the only way to know the difference between traction and distraction. 

• There’s nothing wrong with a nap, game, or relaxing if that’s what you’ve planned to do. 

• Input is more certain than output. You can’t control what you get out of something but you can control how much time you put into it. 

• The people you love deserve more than just getting whatever time is leftover. Go the next step to plan time with them on your calendar. 

• Clarify your values. 

• To get the most out of your phone:

1. 1. 1. Remove apps you no longer need.
      2. Replace apps with profitable ones that line up with your values.
      3. Rearrange according to the most important apps on your home screen and make the others not so easily accessible.
      4. Reclaim by adjusting notifications, only allowing a few apps to make noise and notify you. 

• Hack back your desktop or laptop. A cluttered Home Screen is not only messy, but it controls distractions. 

• Teach children how to be indistractable. It is a quality that will help them throughout all their lives.

• Children must see indistractable modeled by their parents.

• Internal struggles triggers drive behavior.

• Screens and sleep do not mix well.

• Teach children how to swim before diving in. They should learn how to ignore distractions before given a device with dangerous features.