#176: Why Technology Isn’t the Reason You're Distracted with Nir Eyal

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ever blame your unproductive day on too many emails, Slacks, and phone calls? Us too. But on this never-before-released episode of Seeking Wisdom, author, investor and lecturer, Nir Eyal, debunks the myth of technology’s influence on distraction. Because it’s not the technology’s fault you’re distracted – it’s you wanting to be distracted.

DC and Nir talk about Nir's background in advertising and gaming, what he's learned from writing two books (Indistractible and Hooked), and why anything that you do that you don't PLAN to do is a distraction.

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0:00.0	Before we get to the show, did you know you can get more insights just like the ones you're listening to right here on Seeking Wisdom, deliver right to your inbox.
0:14.1	Sign up to get my weekly newsletter. It's called The One Thing at drift.com slash DC.
0:28.6	Thank you. one thing at drift.com slash DC. What's going on?
0:29.6	It's DC here.
0:31.6	I'm here to tell you about an exciting episode of seeking wisdom that we've never before released. And this episode is we're
0:39.7	near I.L. Now, near I.L is an Israeli-born American author. He's a lecturer and investor. He's got this
0:46.2	amazing bestselling book that I've loved and have given away to so many people. It's called
0:50.5	Hooked. And it's about how to you build habit-forming products. He's also
0:55.0	written a book called Indistractable on how to take control of attention. He's amazing. And I spoke to him
1:01.7	in person at Hypergrowth 2019. Hypergrowth is our conference. Happens every year and it's on its way
1:08.6	back. So stay tuned. In this this episode we're going to talk about
1:11.9	growth engagement monetization all of that stuff if you're a product founder if you're someone from
1:17.9	from a marketing background who cares about this stuff this is going to blow your mind and we're
1:22.8	going to talk about how you minimize distractions how you get away from Slack and email and all that stuff.
1:28.5	So that's something that everyone can learn from.
1:31.4	So I'm excited for you to finally listen to this episode that we've kept deep in the crates.
1:39.1	Remember, six star only certified podcast.
1:43.5	See ya.
1:50.0	So thank you for joining us.
1:51.3	I'm obsessed.
1:53.1	We have a book club at Drift.
1:56.4	And one of the books that we give out is your previous book called Hooked.
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