# Professor Adam Alter's book, "Irresistible," is mentioned in an article exploring how people can reclaim their personal time

1 Faculty News January 30, 2020 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [Time](https://time.com/5774260/james-wallman-time-book-excerpt/) -- "No wonder many of us suffer from what psychologists call “time famine.” No wonder we’re seeing books about reclaiming our time, like Brigid Schulte’s Overwhelmed and Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, and about loosening the grip of cell phones, like [Adam Alter’s](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter) Irresistible, Nir Eyal’s Indistractable and Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism."

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