#104 - Nir Eyal - How To Control Your Attention And Become Indistractable
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Nir Eyal is an author, business owner and Teacher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design.
What would life be like if we didn't get distracted? What if we always followed through with the things we said we were going to do? That's the purpose of today's discussion.
Expect to learn how internal and external triggers can combine to form a breeding ground for poor productivity, and how making time for traction is just as important as avoiding distraction when getting things done.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello people of podcast land. Welcome back to modern wisdom. My guest today is near a L and his new book |
| 0:07.8 | Indistractable is up there with my favorites of 2019 if you can imagine a Tommy Cabot's mixed with digital minimalism |
| 0:16.0 | That's that's not far off what it is which is a huge accolade |
| 0:19.3 | What near wanted to do was to work out what life would be like if we followed through with our intentions |
| 0:26.6 | What this means is that we do the things that we say that we are going to do without being distracted and doing something else and |
| 0:33.7 | Today that's what he's going to tell us about one thing |
| 0:36.5 | I don't think that I was quite ready for before I had this discussion with near was how many different |
| 0:42.6 | Contributing factors that are too |
| 0:44.9 | controlling your attention. It's not simply about |
| 0:47.8 | Ensuring that you're not distracted. That isn't enough on its own and as you'll hear today |
| 0:52.6 | Near has a lovely framework that allows you to build from the ground floor up |
| 0:56.6 | How you can control where your mind is going that being said he has got some really cool hacks for how to avoid |
| 1:04.4 | Distraction and to ensure that you do some focused work |
| 1:07.8 | But yeah loads to take away from today if you start implementing some of these and they're great or if there's some distraction |
| 1:14.6 | Challenges you just can't seem to overcome feel free to let me know at Chris will X wherever you follow me |
| 1:20.5 | But for now, please welcome the wise and wonderful mr. near a l |
| 1:41.2 | I'm joined by near a l all the way from the other side of the pond and we're talking about how to be |
| 1:47.7 | Indistractable today near welcome the show |
| 1:50.6 | Great to be here Chris. Thanks so much. We've had a lot of your contemporaries and peers on recently Thiago forte James clear |
| 1:59.5 | Chris sparks Laura van de Kam so we've been circling around this stuff for a little while the listeners will be |
| 2:05.4 | They'll have their appetite wet for this today. So before we get into too much to do with the book |
| 2:11.7 | What do you think life would look like if we followed through with our intentions? |
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