A review by barnysanchez
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Julie Li, Nir Eyal

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

It’s easy to be so distracted in this interconnected digital world. If we measured how much time and energy we spend on social media alone in a handful of apps, the results would be disconcerting. Why we do it, to me, is an even bigger issue (reflection for another time). 

When I shared with a friend some steps to increase productivity and diminish procrastination (tips from this book and others), she argued that it seemed very rigid, maybe even borderline obsessive. I countered that it was precisely this new approach I was taking that was allowing me to do more of all the things I love and that truly mattered to me and that it’s crazy that the one resource we have that is not renewable, time that is, is one that we squander the most in stupid crap! We are more stingy with a $20 bill than 20 minutes of our lives that we will never get back. 

So if you read this book, make sure it gets through to you and that you adopt at least a handful of suggestions, I guarantee it will set you free!