250: Nir Eyal | Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Nir Eyal (@nireyal) is a behavioral designer who helps companies design products that move people, and helps people design their own behavior using the principles of consumer psychology. He is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. This is Nir's second appearance on the show (check out his first time here).
What We Discuss with Nir Eyal:- Why time management is quite literally pain management, and the time you plan to waste is not wasted time.
- How the issues caused by technology today aren't dissimilar to the issues caused by technology that vexed Aristotle and Socrates thousands of years ago.
- Why you'll probably find the popular advice to try digital detox as a way to rid yourself of technology's influence over your life about as effective as a fad diet.
- The damage caused by accepting the media's spin on technology as a pervasive addiction over which we have no control, and what we can do to get the best of these tools without letting them get the best of us.
- How to nurture your child's healthy relationship with technology by empowering them with an understanding of its opportunity costs.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of people ask me how I'm able to stick to my fitness routine, especially since I have such a bananas schedule. |
| 0:06.1 | For me, it's really creating a routine that is sustainable and can be duplicated on an ongoing basis. |
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| 0:20.1 | I might only have 15 minutes in between calls, but I can still fit in a Peloton class. |
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| 0:33.9 | you'll be so glad this thing goes upright. |
| 0:36.1 | If you're a newbie to rowing, the Peloton row has sensors that contract your movements |
| 0:40.1 | that shows you how your form is doing, and it warns you if you're doing something wrong |
| 0:43.5 | that could injure you or whatever. |
| 0:44.7 | And right now is the perfect time to get rowing with Peloton row. |
| 0:47.3 | We can promise you've never rode like this before. |
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| 0:53.7 | that help you get rowing or advance what you can already do. |
| 0:56.0 | Explore Peloton row and financing options at 1peloton.com-slash-row. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 1:08.0 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 1:10.7 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 1:14.4 | most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
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