You're doing it right now. Or you were thirty seconds ago. Or you will be thirty seconds from now.
That unconscious reach for your phone. That automatic flick of the thumb when your brain hits the smallest speed bump. It happens before you notice it. Before you decide. Your hand is on the phone before your brain catches up to what's going on.
That's not a discipline problem. That's an automation problem. And it's destroying your ability to focus.
The Scroll Reflex reveals why "just put your phone down" doesn't work-and what actually does. Written by James Mercer, who once counted 23 unconscious phone reaches in a single hour of "focused work," this book treats compulsive scrolling as what it really is: a deeply ingrained habit that fires faster than conscious thought.
You can't willpower your way out of an automatic behavior. You can't white-knuckle through another digital detox that fails by Wednesday. And you can't delete your way to focus-your brain will just find another source of stimulation.
What you can do is understand the habit loop driving the behavior and systematically dismantle it.
Inside, you'll discover:
- Why the scroll reflex fires before you consciously decide (and why willpower always loses)
- The cue-routine-reward loop behind every automatic scroll
- How to interrupt the cue before the reflex triggers
- Replacement routines that satisfy the same underlying urge
- How to rebuild your attention muscle through progressive training
- The complete 8-week Focus Protocol for rewiring your brain
- What to do when you slip (because you will)
The ability to focus is becoming rare-and increasingly valuable. While everyone else stays trapped in shallow distraction, the person who can sit with a hard problem for an hour has a massive advantage.
The capacity for deep focus is still in you. It's just been crowded out by years of fragmented input. This book shows you how to dig it out.
