Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal

Most people don’t want to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that distraction is always an unhealthy escape from reality. How we deal with uncomfortable internal triggers determines whether we pursue healthful acts of traction or self-defeating distractions.

Only by understanding our pain can we begin to control it and find better ways to deal with negative urges.

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