#104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable, Nir Eyal was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” In this episode, Shane and Nir discuss regaining control of our attention from technology, how to get more done in less time, controlling the things you have agency over and so much more.

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0:00.0	What I discovered was that distraction, the leading cause of distraction and research
0:04.3	bears us out, the leading cause of distraction is not what we call external triggers.
0:09.1	Not the stuff outside of us, but rather distraction begins from within what we call the internal
0:15.1	triggers.
0:16.1	That is the leading cause of distraction, boredom, uncertainty, fatigue, anxiety.
0:21.7	If you don't understand this principle that I live by, that time management requires
0:26.8	pain management.
0:30.4	Always be distracted by something.
0:32.2	If it's too much news, too much booze, too much football, too much Facebook, it doesn't
0:35.2	matter.
0:36.2	Something is going to distract you unless you understand what feeling you are trying to
0:40.1	escape.
0:41.1	Procrastination distraction, it's not a character flaw, it's not some kind of moral failing.
0:45.6	It is the inability to deal with emotional discomfort.
1:02.2	Welcome to the Knowledge Project Podcast, this is Shane Parish.
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1:10.7	of what other people have already figured out.
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