The Attention Recovery Plan
Your focus has been farmed — and you can feel the difference in everything you try to do.
A sequence designed to walk you back from compulsive scrolling to genuine deep work.
- 15 Books
- 92 Insights
The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
B. Alan Wallace
Editor's note
Newport sets the destination. Then we do the work to actually get there.
Open the first bookRead it like a sequence, not a shelf.
Each book earns its position by setting up the next question. Move through the stack in order, or jump to the pressure point you can name today.
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The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused MindOpen book
B. Alan Wallace · 2006
Newport defines the kind of attention worth defending.
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2
Deep WorkOpen book
Cal Newport
Newport again — this time on what to remove from your life.
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3
Digital MinimalismOpen book
Cal Newport
Price runs you through a structured 30-day reset.
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4
Dopamine NationOpen book
Anna Lembke
Lanier explains why you can't just 'use it less'.
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5
How to Break Up with Your PhoneOpen book
Catherine Price
Lembke shows the dopamine machinery underneath.
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6
Make TimeOpen book
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
Knapp & Zeratsky rebuilds the day around what matters.
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7
How to Do NothingOpen book
Jenny Odell · 2019
Attention becomes freedom when it stops serving the systems that scatter it and starts tending the world that can actually answer back.
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8
IndistractableOpen book
Nir Eyal · 2019
You become indistractable when your calendar tells the truth about what matters and your environment stops getting a vote.
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9
Building a Second BrainOpen book
Tiago Forte · 2022
A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.
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10
Smarter Faster BetterOpen book
Charles Duhigg · 2016
Productivity is not doing more things; it is choosing the mental model that makes the right things move.
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11
The Meaning of Your LifeOpen book
Arthur C. Brooks · 2026
Meaning is not something you invent. It is something you uncover, and mostly by putting down the thing in your hand.
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12
Notes on a Nervous PlanetOpen book
Matt Haig · 2018
A nervous planet does not require a nervous inner life as proof that you are paying attention.
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13
10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowOpen book
Jaron Lanier
Delete the feed, and you start hearing your own mind again.
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14
HyperfocusOpen book
Chris Bailey · 2018
The point is not more hours of strain. It is better stewardship of attention.
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Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative MindOpen book
Jocelyn K. Glei · 2013
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A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
Open Better Conversations, Better Life26 books
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
OpenKeep this going in the app.
HourLife turns these ideas into a daily system — goals, habits, focus, and reflection in one private place.
