551: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life with Nir Eyal (an Encore Presentation of Episode 284)
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Every so often, someone reaches out to me and says, “You’ve gotta talk to so-and-so.” Sometimes I’m skeptical, but when it’s a good friend that is doing the talking, my ears perk up. That was the case when it was suggested I chat with today’s guest. His name is Nir Eyal and he did not […]
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 551 of the Read to Lead podcast is an encore presentation of what was originally |
| 0:05.5 | episode 284. Enjoy. |
| 0:09.3 | You can't call something a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from. |
| 0:23.2 | We have no right to complain about how distracting the world is today when we haven't planned |
| 0:28.8 | what we want to do with our time. |
| 0:31.4 | Hi, I'm Jeff Brown. |
| 0:32.4 | I want to welcome you to the Read to Lead podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | A podcast going on about six and a half years now. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm glad you're here. My belief is that if you desire to Lead podcast. A podcast going on about six and a half years now. I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:44.4 | My belief is that if you desire to achieve true success in business and in life, then intentional and consistent reading has to be a part of that equation. The Read to Lead podcast is going to |
| 0:50.7 | not only help you narrow this ever important reading list, but also bring you the key insights and main ideas from some of today's most successful and inspiring authors. We do that by interviewing authors of often recent books. In a moment, we'll sit down with author NIR, N-I-R-A-L, E-Y-A-L. He's the author of the book, Indistractable. How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. |
| 1:13.4 | I plan to ask Neer to share about why he feels the ability to control your attention is the |
| 1:18.2 | single most important skill you can have today. We'll dig into the root causes of distraction, |
| 1:25.2 | methods he recommends for avoiding distraction and interruptions at work |
| 1:29.9 | and plenty more. |
| 1:31.4 | If this topic hits home with you, I'd like to recommend a podcast that's all about productivity. |
| 1:36.2 | In fact, it's one of the top productivity podcasts in iTunes. |
| 1:39.9 | It's hosted by my friend Jeff Sanders, and it's called The 5am Miracle. |
| 1:44.4 | He covers not only productivity, but early mornings and healthy habits and personal development as well. |
| 1:50.3 | One recent episode in particular, you may want to check out, and I'll link to it in the show notes, |
| 1:54.4 | is called Seven Keys to Your Most Productive Day Ever. |
| 1:57.9 | Like me, Jeff has been doing his podcast consistently for six and a half years. |
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