A Tempting Distraction
A Tempting Distraction

Author: Olivia Tasker

Publisher: Olivia Tasker

Published:

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13:

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She was fire and his greatest temptation ...... he was ice and the only one who could cool the dark desires that burned inside her. Mina Lee Impulsive, daring, and free-spirited, Mina Lee has every intention of living life on her own terms even if it means defying the demands set by her family that she must marry a man she doesn't love no matter how attractive and pleasant he might be. Destined to inherit billions of her family’s empire, Mina has other plans than succumbing to her parents' demands. Bastien Thomas Focused, ambitious, rigid, Bastien Thomas has no intention of becoming distracted and losing sight of the prize, especially the kind of distraction Mina Lee brings. Determined to become one of London’s most successful lawyers, his acceptance to the prestigious Oxford University comes with a lot of ultimatums and requirements. The ultimate being success at all costs. She’s everything he should reject, simply because her mere presence makes him forget the reason behind his well-laid out plans. It should matter that her family has already chosen a husband for her or that they would never accept him as he is neither Asian nor of aristocratic wealth. Yet he cannot deny the desire to have it all. The great love story as well as the successful career. And she too cannot deny the impulse to follow her heart, even if it comes at the price of losing it all. No matter how hard they try to resist, their forbidden, untamed desires are a temptation too great to deny. Will love cost them everything?

How Attention Works
How Attention Works

Author: Stefan Van Der Stigchel

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 026235098X

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How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other “attention architects” try hard to get our attention, promoting products with videos on huge outdoor screens, adding flashing banners to websites, and developing computer programs with blinking icons that tempt us to click. Often they succeed in distracting us from what we are supposed to be doing. In How Attention Works, Stefan Van der Stigchel explains the process of attention and what the implications are for our everyday lives. The visual attention system is efficient, Van der Stigchel writes, because it doesn't waste energy processing every scrap of visual data it receives; it gathers only relevant information. We focus on one snippet of information and assume that everything else is stable and consistent with past experience; that's why most people miss even the most glaring continuity errors in films. If an object doesn't meet our expectations, chances are we won't see it. Van der Stigchel makes his case with examples from real life, explaining, among other things, the limitations of color perception (and why fire trucks shouldn't be red); the importance of location (security guards and radiologists, for example, have to know where to look); the attention-getting properties of faces and spiders; what we can learn from someone else's eye movements; why we see what we expect to see (magicians take advantage of this); and visual neglect and unattended information.

Indistractable
Indistractable

Author: Nir Eyal

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1948836785

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"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." —James Clear, author of Atomic Habits "If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice." —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind National Bestseller Winner of the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award Included in the Top 5 Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible Included in the Top 20 Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon Featured in The Amazon Book Review Newsletter, January 2020 Goodreads Best Science & Technology of 2019 Finalist You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become "indistractable?" International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book. In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us. Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals: • Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture—and how to fix it • What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management" • Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable • How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention—helping you live the life you really want.

ATTENTION
ATTENTION

Author: Joshua Cohen

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0399590226

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“Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly “Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as Google, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude Stein, Edward Snowden, Jonathan Franzen, Olympic women’s fencing, Atlantic City casinos, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, and Azerbaijan. Throughout ATTENTION, Cohen directs his sharp gaze at home and abroad, calling upon his extraordinary erudition and unrivaled ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things to show us how to live without fear in a world overflowing with information. In each piece, he projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, and a voice as witty, profound, and distinct as any in American letters. At this crucial juncture in history, ATTENTION is a guide for the perplexed—a handbook for anyone hoping to bring the wisdom of the past into the culture of the future. Praise for ATTENTION “Dazzling in its scope . . . If curiosity is a writer’s greatest innate gift, Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post “Cause for celebration and close study . . . [Cohen] will hunt after neglected shards of the past, minor histories, and charge them with an immediacy in the present. . . . He is experimenting with the essay form much more, and more cleverly, than any major American writer today.”—The Wall Street Journal “In Attention, Joshua Cohen makes an eclectic argument for how to improve our lives. . . . [He] tackles a surprising range of subjects to underline distraction’s role in our fraught predicament and to argue that paying attention could help us get out of it. . . . When it comes to making sense of our times with verve and imagination, few authors are more rewarding.”—Financial Times

Wayward Distractions
Wayward Distractions

Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel

Publisher: National University of Singapore Press

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789813251502

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A collection of essays engaging with Buddhism in Thailand and the virtues of distraction and variety within the materialist turn in studies of religion. In Thailand, Buddhism is deeply integrated into national institutions and ideologies, making it tempting to think of Buddhism in Thailand as a textual, institutional, cultural, and conceptual whole. At the same time, religious expression in the country reflects anything but a single order. Often gaudy, cacophonous, variegated, and jumbled, diversity and apparent contradiction abound. A more open engagement with Buddhism in Thailand requires a willingness to be distracted, to step away from received hierarchies and follow the intriguing detail in the ornate design, the odd textual reference, and to prefer "thin description" over a search for meaning. Justin McDaniel's well-known book-length writings in Buddhist and Theravada studies cannot be fully understood without taking into account his shorter writings, what he calls his wayward distractions. Collected together for the first time, these essays cover subjects ranging from ornamental art to marriage and emotion, the role of Hinduism, neglected gender and ethnic diversity, Buddhist inflections in contemporary art practice, and the boundaries between the living, dead, and undead. These writings will be of importance to students of Theravada and Thailand, of religion in Southeast Asia and more generally, of the materialist turn in studies of religion.

Distracted Doctoring
Distracted Doctoring

Author: Peter J. Papadakos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3319487078

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Examining-room computers require doctors to record detailed data about their patients, yet reduce the time clinicians can spend listening attentively to the very people they are trying to help. This book presents original essays by distinguished experts in their fields, addressing this critical problem and making an urgent case for reform, because while electronic technology has revolutionized the practice of medicine, it also poses a unique challenge to health care. Smartphones in the hands of doctors and nurses have become dangerously seductive devices that can endanger their patients. Distracted Doctoring is written for anesthesiologists and surgeons, as well as general practitioners, nurses, and health care administrators and students. Chapters include Electronic Challenges to Patient Safety and Care; Distraction, Disengagement, and the Purpose of Medicine; and Managing Distractions through Advocacy, Education, and Change.

Fatal Distractions
Fatal Distractions

Author: Ed Young

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc

Published: 2000-04-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1418554189

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Pride. Anger. Envy. Slothfulness. Lust. Greed. Gluttony. Is this an out-of-date list of sins preached against by a behind-the-times church? Or are these sins a challenge and a stumbling block for those of us who are living at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Pastor Ed Young, Jr. says, "I believe you can not only live what the world calls a 'good life,' but you can live what God calls a 'right life.' You can be free of the things that are hanging you up. But to be free, you can and must own up to the distractions described in this book."

Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction
Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction

Author: Geraldine Markel

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 059547540X

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Are distractions sabotaging your efforts to get ahead? Do you feel like you're constantly plagued by technology or interruptions by others? Lurking around us are forces-labeled demons-that interrupt our flow of attention and psychic energy . and it's time to fight back! This book is designed to arm workforce employees, independent professionals, and family managers with simple, yet powerful strategies to defeat the 8 Demons of Distraction. Whatever your special life circumstances, you can use this book to reduce everyday distractions and needless mistakes. Find an in-depth description of each Demon, its sources, and insidious effects. Learn to: reduce distractions increase productivity enhance work/life satisfaction decrease stress Practical, step-by-step strategies will help you rid your life of formidable enemies such as: The "Technology Demon", The "Unruly Mind Demon", The "Activities Demon", and five others. Find a research-based, proven plan of attack to decrease stress and increase your daily effectiveness at home and on the job.

Tempting Triggers
Tempting Triggers

Author: Teun Siebers

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789493353671

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"Smartphones have changed the way humans interact with the world. This change poses serious challenges to regulating one’s smartphone use alongside other daily activities, especially for adolescents who are in a developmental stage marked by reduced parental regulation and still immature self-regulation. Consequently, societal concern around the impact of social media and smartphone use on adolescents’ everyday functioning is growing. However, surprisingly little scientific research has been dedicated to investigating the direct effects of social media use on adolescents’ attention required for everyday functioning. Therefore, this dissertation aims, in four empirical chapters (Chapters 2-5), to investigate how adolescents’ social media and smartphone use affect their distraction, task delay, and sleep quality, and to explore how the effects on distraction and task delay may differ from adolescent to adolescent. This dissertation relies on data from a large intensive longitudinal data collection, including two experience sampling method (ESM) bursts (fielded in December 2019 and June 2020), and smartphone tracking data (June 2020). In both ESM bursts, adolescents received six surveys per day for 21 consecutive days, measuring their social media use (time spent), distraction, and task delay over the past hour, as well as last night’s sleep quality. In total, this resulted in more than 55,000 completed experience sampling surveys and over 750,000 smartphone tracking observations among 383 different adolescents. Together, the research findings yield three important conclusions: 1) the effect of social media use on distraction is strong, 2) the effect of social media use on distraction is universal, and 3) smartphone-related task delay and sleep impairments are dependent on the person, the timing, and the app that is used."--

Anti-Distraction
Anti-Distraction

Author: Instafo

Publisher: Instafo

Published: 2019-08-12

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13:

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Take Action Against “Distraction” Now! Oops...did you just lose your train of thought? Maybe you were occupied on something...and then something else stole your attention. Before you knew it...where did all that time go? An entire day has been wasted. Perhaps it was the time when... * You were doing some work on your computer, then decided to do some quick internet browsing leading you to get pulled all over social media. * You were finishing up some reading for school, then received a notification on your phone leading you to text endlessly back-and-forth. * You were running some important errands for the day, then some public event engaged your participation leading you to neglect your obligations. If you consistently fail to complete what you set out to do - “distraction” is your public enemy number one. The problem is further exasperated if you unknowingly have or have been diagnosed with symptoms like “attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).” Even worse, we are living in a digital age where everything is increasingly becoming faster paced and nosier all competing for our attention and can easily pull you off your intended course of action. Our attention span continues to shrink at an alarming rate. That is why it is more important than ever to be able to stop distraction in its track. Bulletproof Mentality for “Anti-Distraction” will help you with... * How to program your subconscious to block distraction before it occurs. * How to avoid distractions with a simple mapped-out sequence of actions. * How to concentrate using personal visual cues when distraction pops up. * How to stay focused with the power of affirmative assertion action words. * How to apply “acoustical science” against distraction in noisy environments. ...including many more. What makes “Anti-Distraction” different is that it strongly emphasizes on attacking the problem head-on while being in the moment - especially for those who suffer from ADHD where the word “planning” isn’t even in their dictionary. It’s time to nuke your distraction once and for all, improve your concentration to get more focused, and have renewed accelerated energy to do more than possibly imagine.