It is not clear to me exactly what you mean by &quot;managing distractions&quot;.<p>I disabled Notification Center on my Mac because I couldn&#x27;t find a less drastic way to stop Apple from popping up notifications irrelevant to me (e.g., a new version of iTunes is ready to be installed).<p>Does that qualify in your eyes as &quot;managing distractions&quot; correctly or not?<p>Would it in your opinion have been better for me to learn not to be bothered or distracted by notifications -- to change myself instead of changing the Mac, in other words?<p>ADDED. Even though I never use iTunes, I have not been able to figure out a way to stop my Mac from trying to upgrade iTunes.