This is Steve Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is on the most devious form of distraction and how to blast through it and keep laser-like focus, or what passes for laser-like focus, in the 21st century.

Before we start today, a big thank you to listener Kako in

her English language study group. They pointed out that I misspoke in my episode on the basics of

good goal setting. My subtle reference to Lady Macbeth was attributed to Hamlet rather than

Macbeth. Yes, Hamlet was a bit of a playboy, but no, he was not secretly romancing Lady

Macbeth.

Thank you so much, Cago.

Yay, it's the Internet. I just love the Internet.

No, no, I don't. I hate the Internet.

Every time I try to get something productive done, something on the Internet drags my attention away.

Oh, look, a politician tweeted something.

Bitcoin is now worth more than Google.

Here's an awesome picture of a black hole formed by two colliding galaxies. Sick. Clickbait is

easy to recognize. Now, we all know that you never ever click on pictures of adorable, cute,

fuzzy little kittens, or sneak a peek at Justin Bieber's latest zany adventures, hilarious.

Maddie B's YouTube channel? Meaningful. Or Taylor Swift's manifesto on 18th century lesbian poetry

and its influence on the latest Australian elections. Puzzling. These are all clickbait and

gossip. They're there to titillate us, make us click on a link, and then make

Google a cool $1.35 per click. Kaching. When we follow clickbait, we know we're being naughty.

Maddie B won't make us more productive, and yet his 4 billion channel fuse just went to

$4 billion in one. But these are minor compared to what's become the worst and most devious of internet distractions.

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