159: How to Distract-Proof Your Brain—Nir Eyal
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Patrick Coffin
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🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Do you find yourself distracted all day by the pings and dings of your smartphone, by the lure of that Amazon Prime movie, or hilarious kitten videos on YouTube, or your favorite news commentary, or the funny pages, or making a hot coffee before you “really get down to work”?
Stop me if this sounds like you, because it certainly sounds like me.
Fortunately for the distracted brethren of this world, a practical guide to distract-proofing your brain is now available. New York best-selling author Nir Eyal has put 5 years of research into one place. It's called Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
Nir does not spout platitudes or make generalizations. He provides practical tools that build the kind of habits that enable you to stay on task and to use your time wisely and deliberately. Lots of objective data to back it all up as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 159 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:07.0 | I do want to mention the doors are still open for Kophon Nation, go to Kofination, that's C-O-F-I-N, as in resurrection of the body. |
| 0:15.6 | Kof-N-O-F-I-N, we're in over 20 countries now. |
| 0:18.1 | It's a culture-building website mostly for Catholics, |
| 0:20.4 | but we do have people from other religious worldview persuasions. |
| 0:24.3 | The goal is to restore the culture, make family stronger. |
| 0:29.4 | How are you treating your wife or your husband? |
| 0:31.0 | What's your family life like? And what kind of habits do you have, which is a great segue to our topic and our guest today? |
| 0:37.0 | The website again, coffin Nation.com, three levels of engagement, lots of commentary, and we do deep dive with mentors and live webinars go to there |
| 0:46.3 | and find out more co-fonation.com so the topic is habits and distractibility do you |
| 0:51.6 | find yourself constantly interrupted by things that you really |
| 0:57.2 | should be ignoring like pings, notifications, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. |
| 1:03.0 | Remember My Space? |
| 1:05.0 | Let's have a moment of silence from My Space. |
| 1:06.0 | Whatever it is, social media is creating a tsunami of little distractions. |
| 1:10.0 | And once in a while a book will come along that puts so much important information in one place. |
| 1:16.0 | This book is indestractable and its author near AYol is here to tell us more and you're |
| 1:21.8 | going to love this one. So buckle up up be back in just about 2.5 seconds |
| 1:25.8 | Warning a following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview |
| 1:33.0 | Heh. Hey get out of here man. |
| 1:34.0 | Hey look if you aren't addicted to the Patrick Coffin show, |
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