Coaching practices for Add Friction to Distraction
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The escape is one tap away and so frictionless that I’m three videos deep before I even realize I caved
- My thumb opens the app before I’ve even decided to
- The second the work gets boring or hard or makes me anxious, my hand is already reaching for my phone before I’ve even decided to
- Something just landed and I’m too wound up to deal with it sanely right this second
- I sit down to focus and within minutes I’ve drifted to my phone, an open tab, the snack on the desk
Practices that may help
- Use effort pacts
Add friction that makes distraction harder to slip into without thinking.
Indistractable, Made Practical - Add friction to attention-capture apps
Increase the effort required to open distracting apps so the default path is not the lowest-resistance one.
The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It - Master your internal triggers
Identify the uncomfortable feeling that precedes distraction and address it directly.
Indistractable, Made Practical - Use distraction deliberately as a short-term regulation tool
Deliberately shifting attention away from an emotion-generating stimulus can provide a short-term window for recovery — if used strategically.
Attentional Deployment, Made Practical - Reduce cues for competing behaviors during focused periods
Your focus is partly controlled by what stimuli are in your environment — reducing competing cues protects target behaviors.
Stimulus Control, Made Practical - Attentional deployment
Direct attention away from the emotionally provocative element of a situation before the emotion fires.
Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical - Keep an attention capture list during hyperfocus
Write down every impulse, distraction, and off-topic idea that arises during a session rather than acting on or suppressing it.
Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most - Laser: defend focused attention
Engineer your environment so the Highlight gets uninterrupted, distraction-free attention.
Make Time, Made Practical - Correct distracting by returning to what was avoided
When you’ve changed the subject or made a joke, come back to the thing that felt threatening.
The Satir Model - Use a pre-commitment device to lock in hyperfocus sessions
Commit to a specific focus block in advance and introduce a friction cost to abandoning it.
Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most
Related concerns
- Capture Distractions Focus
Write down every impulse, distraction, and off-topic idea that arises during a session rather than acting on or suppressing it.
Keep an attention capture list during hyperfocus
- Distracting In Communication
When you’ve changed the subject or made a joke, come back to the thing that felt threatening.
Correct distracting by returning to what was avoided
- Distraction Capture List
Write down every impulse, distraction, and off-topic idea that arises during a session rather than acting on or suppressing it.
- Distraction Technique
Deliberately shifting attention away from an emotion-generating stimulus can provide a short-term window for recovery — if used strategically.
Use distraction deliberately as a short-term regulation tool
- Distraction Vs Concentration Emotion
Deliberately shifting attention away from an emotion-generating stimulus can provide a short-term window for recovery — if used strategically.
- Emotional Cause Of Distraction
Deliberately shifting attention away from an emotion-generating stimulus can provide a short-term window for recovery — if used strategically.
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