Irresistible
Why We Can't Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching
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Adam Alter
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Adam Alter
About this listen
How many times have you checked your phone today? Why are messaging apps, email and social media so hard to resist? How come we always end up watching another episode?
In recent years, media and technology have perfected the lucrative art of gaining and holding our attention. This extraordinary feat has changed the behaviour of billions of people, and especially the young: by current medical standards, we are experiencing an unprecedented global pandemic of addiction. But what exactly is an addiction? And what, if anything, might we do about it?
From cliff-hangers to earworms, from religion to pornography, and from the awesome allure of the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood app to the unexpected benefits of the 'butt-brush effect', Irresistible blends fascinating stories with ingenious science to explain how and why we all got hooked. Revealing the surprising causes and sometimes bizarre nature of addiction, this book will equip you with the tools and understanding you need to navigate our irresistible new world.
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"Brilliant." (Susan Cain)
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-08-20
Really makes you think
Really makes you think about those leisure activities that you thought benign, innocuous and harmless. In many cases they are except when they become irresistibly addictive.
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- Sebastian English
- 23-09-18
Extremely eye opening
I would highly recommend this audio book. I enjoyed Alter’s delivery and investment into his work. It is a strong mix of research, real world examples and personal accounts. I was struck by Alter’s disclosure of his own tendencies to become addicted to tech.
As well as providing a commentary on how addiction is built into social media and gaming, and the social implications of that, he provides a solid introduction to behavioural addiction in general - both its mechanisms and also how the understanding of it evolved over time.
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- Tom Darbs
- 13-11-20
Very Insightful (and terrifying)
Great listen and really rings true in places. Very insightful and terrifying in places when you spot your own behaviour.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-06-19
very interesting topic
very interesting and thought provoking but took me a while to finish. so jam packed with info and research and facts is a lot to take in in one go. overall would recommend
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- Patrascu Cristian
- 15-09-24
A great book to understand why you are addicted and how to fight it
I liked the amount of details on how and why I was addicted to gaming, SM and other things.
Thanks Adam
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- stryder
- 12-05-17
We are all addicted to something - and somebody else gets paid for it
Important book for everyone to listen to or read about how addiction can creep up on us in the modern world and how someone is normally profiting from it.
Although the material is not new or original, book is written and read well.
It's not against tech and modern digital life but makes case for us remembering it is just a tool available to us humans
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- Hunor Peter
- 08-11-20
Glad the author read the book
Excellent book made just better by the fact the author read it. All books should be read by their authors.
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- BackGardenMan
- 13-06-17
Fascinating listen
Very engaging. Well written. Good performance in terms of the reading. The examples and the arguments had me paying attention all the way through.
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- carlos
- 24-11-20
Brilliant book
Brilliant book, well written and the information is many many years before it's time.
well done!!
I highly recommend this book .
Voice is very pleasant 🙂
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- Stevebrucehk
- 24-03-21
scary as hell
once you start understanding how you are being sucked into the world of addiction with your smartphone or computer games you play, you will rethink a lot of things.
highly recommended book!
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