Nir EyalIndistractable
How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Contents
Introduction: From Hooked to Indistractable 1: What's Your Superpower? 2:
Being Indistractable
Part 1: Master Internal Triggers
3: What Motivates Us, Really? 4: Time Management Is Pain Management 5: Deal
with Distraction from Within 6: Reimagine the Internal Trigger 7: Reimagine
the Task 8: Reimagine Your Temperament
Part 2: Make Time for Traction
9: Turn Your Values into Time 10: Control the Inputs, Not the Outcomes 11:
Schedule Important Relationships 12: Sync with Stakeholders at Work
Part 3: Hack Back External Triggers
13: Ask the Critical Question 14: Hack Back Work Interruptions 15: Hack
Back Email 16: Hack Back Group Chat 17: Hack Back Meetings 18: Hack Back
Your Smartphone 19: Hack Back Your Desktop 20: Hack Back Online Articles
21: Hack Back Feeds
Part 4: Prevent Distraction with Pacts
22: The Power of Precommitments 23: Prevent Distraction with Effort Pacts
24: Prevent Distraction with Price Pacts 25: Prevent Distraction with
Identity Pacts
Part 5: How to Make Your Workplace Indistractable
26: Distraction Is a Sign of Dysfunction 27: Fixing Distraction Is a Test
of Company Culture 28: The Indistractable Workplace
Part 6: How to Raise Indistractable Children (and Why We All Need
Psychological Nutrients)
29: Avoid Convenient Excuses 30: Understand Their Internal Triggers 31:
Make Time for Traction Together 32: Help Them with External Triggers 33:
Teach Them to Make Their Own Pacts
Part 7: How to Have Indistractable Relationships
34: Spread Social Antibodies Among Friends 35: Be an Indistractable Lover
Chapter Takeaways Schedule Template Distraction Tracker Acknowledgments
Contributors About the Authors Notes Index
