Driven to Distraction at Work Quotes

“A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of “What am I missing?”
― Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“Whether you realize it or not, how you slept last night probably has a bigger impact on your life than what you decide to eat, how much money you make, or where you live. All of those things that add up to what you consider you—your creativity, emotions, health, and ability to quickly learn a new skill or devise a solution to a problem—can be seen as little more than by-products of what happens inside your brain while your head is on a pillow each night. It is part of a world that all of us enter and yet barely understand … Sleep isn’t a break from our lives. It’s the missing third of the puzzle of what it means to be living.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don’t understand what’s happening and take steps to prevent it.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.”
― Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“A heightened distractibility and a persistent feeling of being rushed or in a hurry, even when there’s no need to be, combined with a mounting feeling of how superficial your life has become: lots to do, but no depth of thought or feeling.”
― Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“They describe the feeling of being online as a kind of anesthesia that eases the pain of everyday life.”
― Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“Because people develop ADT in an effort to cope with the stresses in their lives, and because the symptoms actually help them in the short term, the symptoms are “sticky” and may solidify into firm habits, even when life slows and becomes less stressful.”
― Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“and thereby sabotage their best selves. Aspiring entrepreneurs like Ashley have said to me, “I can’t be tied down to a routine or a flow chart.”
― Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive