Creating Systems to be Less Distracted & More Available - Nir Eyal - 268
Relationship School Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.6 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Do you check your phone all day long? Have you ever tried to speak to someone about something important only to have them distracted by their phone or something else? It sucks.
These days, we have endless distractions. So, how do we stay oriented to what matters, and how do we not let our business distract us away from the relationships we care most about? Well, I found someone who knows a lot about this stuff and interviewed him. His insights are a breath of fresh air. And, he says it's all about getting systematized and setting boundaries. Listen now.
Do you check your phone all day long? Have you ever tried to speak to someone about something important only to have them distracted by their phone or something else? It sucks.
These days, we have endless distractions. So, how do we stay oriented to what matters, and how do we not let our business distract us away from the relationships we care most about? Well, I found someone who knows a lot about this stuff and interviewed him. His insights are a breath of fresh air. And, he says it's all about getting systematized and setting boundaries. Listen now.
SHOWNOTES:
- (3:10) Introduction Nir Eyal
- (10:10) What it means to be “distracted”
- (14:50): Why we get distracted
- (22:30) Strategies how to get less distracted in our lives
- (35:05) Final advice: Planning to avoid distractions
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SV4V6ZK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
- (39:05) Action step
Useful Links:
- https://www.nirandfar.com/
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SV4V6ZK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
- https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/?utm_source=indistractable.com&utm_medium=redirect
- https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/
- https://www.niandfar.com/distractions/
- https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/
- https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, how can you call something a distraction if you don't know what it distracted you from? |
| 0:05.4 | You can't. |
| 0:06.4 | If there's blank space on your calendar, you know what you're going to do with it. |
| 0:09.3 | You're not going to write your novel. |
| 0:11.4 | You're not going to accomplish your lifelong goals. You are going to putts around on Facebook or something. |
| 0:16.0 | Exactly. So everything's a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from. I'm Jason Gattle. Hey, relationship geeks and freaks, what's up? And welcome back to the relationship school podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Jason Gaddis, your host. |
| 0:46.2 | And I am here to serve you in a big way |
| 0:52.1 | by continuing to give you free relationship goodness. |
| 0:56.9 | This episode is an unusual one in that we have a guy |
| 1:01.5 | who's talking about getting traction by eliminating distraction in your life. |
| 1:07.4 | And I think this applies to us when we're looking at our phones and our relationships. |
| 1:11.7 | So this is going to be a unique episode. Normally we're all about |
| 1:16.7 | intimacy, love, partnership, and because the relationship school is growing, we |
| 1:22.0 | I'm experimenting with different guests that are coming |
| 1:26.2 | at this from a non-kind of relationship expert or non-couple point of view. |
| 1:31.4 | And I just want your feedback. So let me know what you think of this. I |
| 1:33.7 | personally got a lot out of this interview just for my own life so this guy's name is |
| 1:40.7 | near and near near all and he's written a book called Indestractable and so we talk |
| 1:48.1 | about his book it'll be in the show notes you can can check it out. But who cares what you're like what what do you mean |
| 1:56.3 | Indestractable? Yeah, we're all really busy. We're all staring at our phones and very |
| 2:01.8 | distracted from being present. What is one of the main |
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