2360: [Part 1] Identifying the Twitch That’s Keeping Us Distracted and Stagnant in Life by Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch

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🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch talks about how to identify what keeps us distracted and stagnant. This is part 1 of 2. Episode 2360: [Part 1] Identifying the Twitch That’s Keeping Us Distracted and Stagnant in Life by Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch After years of impulse spending on Amazon and elsewhere, Anthony Ongaro realized that his one-click purchase habits were more of a physical Twitch than an intentional action. It turned out, this Twitch wasn’t just limited to online spending. It applied to social media, impulsive smartphone usage, and more. Break the Twitch is all about minimizing distractions and doing more of what matters. Check out Anthony's new book, Break the Twitch: http://breakthetwitch.com/book The original post is located here: https://www.breakthetwitch.com/twitch/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2360 identifying the Twitch that's keeping us distracted and stagnant in life.
0:07.9	Part 1 by Anthony Ungaro of BreakTheTwitch.com and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:12.9	Now today I have a bit of a longer post I'll read the first half today
0:16.4	then finish the rest for you tomorrow so with that let's get right to part 1 and start optimizing your life.
0:21.9	Identifying the Twitch that's keeping us distracted and stagnant in life.
0:31.1	Part 1 by Anthony Ungaro of BreakTheTwitch.com
0:36.2	In early 2014 something happened at work that ended up changing my life forever.
0:42.1	In fact it changed your life forever too because if it hadn't happened
0:45.9	break the Twitch wouldn't be here for you.
0:47.7	It's all because my coworker walked into my office and interrupted me.
0:53.5	Today started out innocently enough while working as the marketing director at a nonprofit
0:58.8	typing up a blog post with the latest news in the bike share world.
1:03.0	Mid-keystroke I heard a knock at my office door so I lifted my hands from the keyboard and looked over.
1:09.2	After a short conversation with my coworker I looked back at my computer screen and couldn't believe
1:14.6	what I saw. At the end of a half written sentence I had typed the word Facebook.
1:21.7	What the heck? During that interruption and mid-keystroke my brain seemed to have short-circuited.
1:28.7	It was in that oddly shame inducing moment when I learned I did not in fact own my attention.
1:35.2	So if I didn't own it who did? I realized my frequent one click purchase pattern I recognized
1:42.4	months earlier was not an isolated spending problem but an intention and an attention problem.
1:49.6	I began to see many small daily actions I was doing were more impulsive twitches than intentional
1:55.2	actions. Since starting this blog and intentionally exploring the impact of my small daily actions
2:02.0	the Twitch has shown up in places I never expected. I even wrote a book about it,
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