Distraction Trap, The: How to Focus in a Digital World

Author:   Frances Booth
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
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9780273785859


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 March 2013
Format:   Paperback
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  If you're worried that you're losing the power to concentrate  The Distraction Trap can help. Learn how you can easily release your life from the steely grip of modern technology where you're always available and always connected. Discover how you can radically boost your productivity by keeping your whole brain and both eyes on the task in hand.   You may think you can do ten things at once, with a scattered thinking approach and expect to do everything well and on time. Well, you can't. The Distraction Trap will empower you to focus and priortise, switch of your email, say no to social media ruling your life and help you rediscover your lost powers of concentration. 

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Author:   Frances Booth
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   Pearson Education Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9780273785859


ISBN 10:   0273785850
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 March 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part One Chapter 1 – The Way we Live Chapter 2 – The things we’ve lost Chapter 3 – Mind Pollution: The Four Evils Part Two Chapter 4 – Assess Chapter 5 – Change Starts Today Chapter 6 – Watch the Pros Chapter 7 – Tools and Methods (Productivity Tips) Chapter 8 – Watch out for being caught out Chapter 9 – Who’s distracting you? Chapter 10 – Keep your aims in mind, and aim high Chapter 11 – Reboot and get balanced Chapter 12 – The ups, the downs, the future Tuning in to a digital life References

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Essential reading for all of us who text during conversations, watch TV with Twitter as our couch companion, and have five screens open on our laptops. A sharply analysed, clear-eyed guide on how to detox from digital distractions - Homa Khaleeli, Guardian journalist


Essential reading for all of us who text during conversations, watch TV with Twitter as our couch companion, and have five screens open on our laptops. A sharply analysed, clear-eyed guide on how to detox from digital distractions - Homa Khaleeli, Guardian journalist


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Frances Booth is a successful writer and editor who has worked for many years as a journalist for both The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.   She’s passionate about and specialises in attention, concentration and distraction and the benefits of relaxation and switching off and has delivered many talks, seminars and workshops maximising productivity, focus and eliminating unnecessary distractions.  

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