AP 543: How Distraction Works + How to Get Better at Doing What You Say You’re Going to Do || with Nir Eyal

About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Nir Eyal, author and behavioral designer, has spent years researching habit formation - specifically teaching tech and product companies how to get users hooked. He has a refreshing take, though, and discourages the all-or-nothing abandonment of your smart device for a 1990's flip phone and typewriter (from personal experience, seriously). Instead, Nir teaches 4 techniques that are really mindset shifts to address the 3 biggest reasons you're getting distracted. If you've been here for any amount of time you'll recognize many of the things we discuss: values, discomfort, taking action, even time management. Tune in and you'll feel encouraged to take action on the attributes of the person you want to become and be equipped to become indistractable. Finding Me Academy My FREE DSL Training My FREE habits class Full Show Notes Sticky Habit Method This episode is brought to you by Vionic Shoes (use code PROGRESS) and by OneSkin. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code “PROGRESS” at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about
0:06.7	Progress made practical. I forgot about a very important interview last Friday.
0:13.0	And I'm talking career-making important interview.
0:17.0	Even though it was on my calendar and it was on my mind,
0:21.0	even up until the morning of the interview.
0:24.0	Somehow the time came and went and alongside of it, so did the opportunity.
0:31.0	Why did I forget something that was so important? I was distracted. In short, I was
0:37.4	busy doing what felt most urgent instead of what was most important.
0:43.0	Distraction can be superficial in nature,
0:46.0	like when we find ourselves looking at our phones
0:48.0	instead of really listening to a loved one who's talking to us.
0:52.0	But distraction can also go deep,
0:55.1	like when our busy minds are running on overtime
0:57.7	tracking all of the moving parts of our lives.
1:00.4	This very kind of distraction
1:02.1	made me run a red light this morning.
1:04.0	I kid you not.
1:06.0	Distraction is a problem for all of us, but part of the problem is how easily we blame
1:12.0	our lack of self-discipline.
1:15.0	If you're saying, if I'm not to blame Monica, then who is?
1:19.0	My answer lies in this episode with Near Aol.
1:23.0	Near will share how distraction has been a problem for all of humanity since the dawn of time,
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