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Good Life Project

Becoming Indistractable | Nir Eyal

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago, Nir Eyal showed the world how tech-companies build apps, games, and platforms that highjack your attention and become near impossible to stop using in his book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. That book became a global phenomenon and opened people's eyes to the power of technology to not just help, but consume our lives. His new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (https://amzn.to/2KXnkMx), serves as a guidebook for getting the best of technology and reclaiming our attention, without letting it get the best of us. In addition to writing and speaking, Eyal has also lectured at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. You can find two tools references in the conversation here: schedule maker tool (https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/) | distraction guide (https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/).

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I first stumbled upon the work of my guest today near I.L. When he came out with his book

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about five years ago called a hook. Hooked was this deep dive into deconstructing how

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some of the biggest tech companies and app developers developed their platforms, their apps,

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their tools, their programs to make them sort of irresistible. Like you start playing

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them and you kind of can't stop and then you keep going back over and over and over and

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over again. And in that book, he laid out sort of a four step process that all of these

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companies already know about. But as a reader, you could actually see what was happening

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and it kind of armed you to understand what was going on and then to make different choices

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and to understand how to maybe step out of the slipstream of those devices and technologies

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and programs. He has a new book out now called Indistractable, which in my mind is almost like

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