Grog's Guide To Modern Attention: Grog Vs Glowing Rock (The Grog Guides)
You pick up your phone to check one thing. Half an hour later, you're still scrolling.
The book you wanted to read stays unopened. Your thoughts keep getting interrupted. Even a quiet evening becomes another opportunity to check the glowing rectangle.
Grog understands. He has spent forty thousand years paying attention to the world - and even he keeps checking his phone.
In Grog's Guide to Modern Attention, an ancient caveman brings dry humour, thoughtful perspective, and practical advice to a very modern problem: choosing where your attention goes when so much is designed to capture it.
Grog investigates the attention economy, the habits that keep us reaching for our phones, and what distraction costs our work, rest, relationships, and children. Along the way, he asks why humans who can send spacecraft to Mars struggle to get through dinner without checking a notification.
Inside, you'll discover:
What keeps you checking: how notifications, endless feeds, and unpredictable rewards encourage another look.
What distraction costs: how fragmented attention affects concentration, conversations, and the ability to enjoy ordinary life.
How to audit your phone: practical ways to rethink your apps, notifications, home screen, and where you keep your device.
How to practice paying attention again: simple approaches to focused work, quieter mornings, reading, and stillness.
How to protect connection: ways to give people your full attention and talk honestly with children about technology.
What can come back: room for creativity, hobbies, deeper thought, and moments you actually experience.
Warm, funny, and occasionally uncomfortably familiar, this book helps you understand your habits and make deliberate choices about them. Grog knows the phone is a remarkable tool. He would simply like you to remember what you picked it up for.
For anyone who misses getting lost in a book, finishing a thought, or enjoying someone's company without reaching for a screen, Grog has a place for you beside the fire.
Put down the glowing rock. Make room for the life around it.
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