Q. Four elements of the “indistractable” model?
A. Master internal triggers; hack back external triggers; make time for traction; prevent distraction with pacts
This book defines distraction as {any action that moves you away from what you really want}.
This book defines traction as {any action that moves you towards what you really want}.
“The only way to handle distraction is by learning to handle {discomfort}.”
People prefer doing to thinking
Ten-minute rule around distractions: {if you notice yourself yearning for some displacement activity, permit it… but in ten minutes (the urge often passes)}.
Ian Bogost’s recipe for finding fun in anything, like lawn-mowing, starts in “paying {close, foolish, even absurd attention to things}.”
Possible info hazard around willpower: {some (not-vetted) experiments suggest that people only run out of willpower if they view willpower as a finite resource}.