Still Hours: Reclaiming Focus in a Distracted World

David Mercer spent fifteen years watching talented people underperform—not because they lacked skill, but because the structure of their workday made focused work nearly impossible. This is the system he built to fix that.

Still Hours lays out a tested method for protecting blocks of uninterrupted time in a world of open offices, Slack pings, and back-to-back meetings. Mercer draws on research from UC Irvine, Princeton, and Microsoft to explain why your brain cannot multitask the way you think it can, then gives you a concrete 21-day plan for changing your habits.

38 pages. No filler. You can read it tonight and start using it tomorrow morning.

What's inside:

• How the two attention networks in your brain compete (and why constant switching ruins both)
• The Still Hours system: rules, setup, and common objections
• Workspace and digital hygiene changes that eliminate distraction at the source
• A week-by-week reset plan with specific daily actions
• Strategies for surviving open-plan offices without losing your mind

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