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DIGESTIVE INSIGHTS FROM - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

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Hello everyone there! Distraction is something that we face on a day to day basis by various platforms. For instance, that one morning you had planned out what to do for the day, perfect to-do schedule is lying in front of you, now you are filled with a miraculous spark of motivation. You are twenty-five minutes in and a notification pops on your phone, well then you try to resist it. After a while, multiple notifications start to rush in, it might be an emergency. So you pick it up and lose the level of focus. Voila! Your productivity is gone now. But you are not alone it happens for everyone but distraction is not inevitable.


Here are some compiled insights from the fantastic book written by Nir Eyal called Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.




What is motivation and why it is depleting?


  1. Motivation is the willingness to do something with a desired effect of action, this arises from the effect of pain.
  2. Without pain there is no need for change, if humanity was satisfied with everything it had, there would have been no revolution or reformation. 
  3. With pain arises a sense of discomfort and sudden urge to do something impeccably astonishing.
  4. Motivation leads to traction which is the momentary action towards the set of goals that you are working on but there is always an antagonist working against your introspective thoughts these are distractions.
  5. They can arise either internally or externally. 


To support these claims made there is an interesting quote from the book- 'the wealth of information means a dearth of something else... a poverty of attention


The absurd benefit of pain.


  1. It might sound a bit absurd, is that time management is efficiently allocating pain towards specific things.
  2. Control of pain is a surreal superpower that is used to work with high efficacy and resist negative urges. 
  3. Your certain level of efficiency starts to diminish with you start to feel satisfaction. Satisfaction starts to emanate with psychological factors - boredom, negativity bias, rumination and hedonic adaptation.
  4. Boredom is what we all experience when our brains are not able to engage with something and work on it, or simply put it is the state of feeling bored.
  5. Negativity bias might seem new, from the term it can be easily understood it is a bias towards negative ideas, this is the reason why we remember painful events more compared to optimal ones. 
  6. Rumination is a deep thought towards a certain thing, this can also be considered as day-dreaming. 


Another interesting quote - 'its good to know that feeling bad isn't bad; it's exactly what the survival of the fittest intended'. Now, comes the end of part 1 insights. 


-Jeshurun


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