39. What's Essential: Nir Eyal on How to be Indistractable
The Greg McKeown Podcast
Greg McKeown
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan and I'm your host for the What's Essential Podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | There are lots of shows on how to improve and how to become successful, but there is only |
| 0:15.0 | one on what to do once you are. |
| 0:18.8 | This is essential because success can be a catalyst for failure, especially that leads to the |
| 0:23.9 | undisciplined pursuit of more. |
| 0:26.3 | This show is about how to become successful at success. |
| 0:30.4 | It's for high performers who are on the edge of exhaustion, it's for people who struggle |
| 0:34.2 | with the curse of capability. |
| 0:36.4 | It's important because what got you here is not what's going to get you there. |
| 0:41.2 | So if you're a driven, hard working, productive person who is running out of space but still |
| 0:46.4 | wants to make a higher contribution, the What's Essential Podcast is designed especially |
| 0:52.0 | for you. |
| 0:53.5 | In this episode, we have near-a-al, the best-selling author of Hooked and also indistractable, |
| 0:59.2 | who's going to help you make progress in your life by focusing more intentionally on |
| 1:03.9 | the things that matter most to you. |
| 1:06.2 | He turns the tables on me in this episode and the essential intervention is of a different |
| 1:11.0 | kind because he's coaching me on helping me to become more indistractable and of course |
| 1:16.5 | I need that help all the time. |
| 1:18.8 | So let's begin. |
| 1:24.0 | Here we have near-a-al, who really, among other things, it is my life's mission just to |
| 1:29.7 | keep up with. |
| 1:31.0 | The best-selling author of books, Well Worth, everybody's time to read, Hooked and indistractable. |
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