It applies just as much to situations where you set down to work and get distracted by YouTube recommendations as when you sit down to watch Netflix with a loved one and get distracted by the phone vibrating next to you.Įither way, some internal or external factor is pulling your attention and focus away from what you set out to do. To be clear, these objectives or this traction doesn’t have to be some major, transcendental life goal. Distraction is the exact opposite of traction, or that which is pulling us toward or objectives. In Nir Eyal‘s book, he defines being distraction as being anything that pulls us away from what we want to be doing in the moment. It is these periods of being adrift where I am most prone to distraction. Over the past few years, I find myself oscillating between periods of great progress and other periods of being adrift, so to speak. While I love the life of location independence and running my small business, I do have to admit that it is infinitely more easy for me to get distracted and fall and into a rabbit hole of things that don’t do anything to advance my goals, thanks to the fact that I don’t have coworkers to hold me accountable or a boss breathing down my neck.
This is part of my series of book summaries for online entrepreneurs and digital nomads.
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life is a book that aims to explain what exactly distraction is, what triggers it, and how we can attempt to corral it so we can work toward the things that really matter to us in life, whether they are professional, personal, interpersonal, or even just having fun. Let’s review some of the key takeaways of the book with this Indistractable summary and book review. I too frequently struggle with the magnetic pull of distraction, which is why I picked up the book Indistractable by Nir Eyal. It seems like distraction is all the more prevalent today thanks to our electronic devices that have trained us so well. One of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of creating the life or lifestyle that we really desire is often simple but recurring distractions that pull us away, delay us, or prevent us from doing the things we really should be doing.
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