Distracted... Again!
Noah Kagan Presents
Noah Kagan
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This month I've been thinking a lot about distractions and how easy it is to spend time on things that feel productive while avoiding the one thing that actually matters.
I've been getting distracted by stocks and NBA bets, using AI as a weirdly effective therapist after an argument with my wife, and finally the big focus reset we're making at AppSumo.
If you've been feeling scattered, stuck, or like you're busy but not really moving forward… this one's for you. 🎧
In this episode, you'll learn:
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Why Distractions usually reveal the real problem.
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What a clear plan feels like under stress.
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How you can kickstart your mid-year reset.
Links & resources mentioned:
• AppSumo https://appsumo.com
• TidyCal https://tidycal.com
• SendFox https://sendfox.com
• FormRobin https://formrobin.com
• Follow Noah on X https://twitter.com/noahkagan
• My book Million Dollar Weekend https://milliondollarweekend.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, you sexy bastards? It is your boy Plantain's, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka Noah Kagan. |
| 0:12.8 | How are you doing today? It's been quite a journey, this whole lifetime on this planet. |
| 0:20.0 | I hope your journey is going awesome. |
| 0:22.4 | Oh, I'm seeing this couple outside my window holding hands. It's so cute. For the record, |
| 0:27.2 | I hate plantains. I just, I'm a banana guy. It's been quite a month. I don't have necessarily |
| 0:33.3 | a focus topic, which is one of our topics for today, but I have some things that are going on |
| 0:38.8 | around Absumo, around my personal life and business life that I thought would be beneficial |
| 0:43.8 | for you. So I'm going to jump right in, but the topic we're going to talk about is distractions, |
| 0:49.3 | AI for therapy, focus, surveys. This has been a shockingly really good one and the plan, which relates to |
| 0:58.3 | probably therapy, but also feeling optimistic and in control. Let's jump in. So distractions. |
| 1:07.1 | I put a post out on Twitter regarding how my friend has this giant stock portfolio and how I'm jealous |
| 1:13.6 | and then I'm spending all this time on stocks. |
| 1:16.2 | And then, dude, I got a confession and this is like going to the confession booth. |
| 1:19.8 | I don't know what Jews do. |
| 1:21.2 | That's why Jews don't have confession booths because we'd complain too much already. |
| 1:35.3 | But I'm gambling. Yeah, it's not me. I'm like, who am I? I'm gambling on the NBA playoffs. And it started slowly. I did it on the Super Bowl. I was gambling on bad bunny songs. |
| 1:40.5 | And then it was a Super Bowl itself. And then I was just like, it's a slippery slope. but I'm talking dollars. I'm doing like $2. So far I'm down, I think, $10. But I'm gambling there. I'm spending a lot of time on tidy cow. I'm spending a lot of time on San Fox. I'm spending a lot of time complaining probably, hopefully not. I'm trying to be more optimistic in general. I think I've done a |
| 2:01.6 | pretty good job of that. And what I've realized is that I'm avoiding maybe some of the harder |
| 2:06.1 | problems and I'm distracting myself from the main thing, which is absumo. And that's because it's |
| 2:14.2 | been hard. It's been a challenging year, partially. I'm just going to blame |
| 2:17.9 | everybody else, but really, it's a lot of our own decisions and my decisions have not gone what we thought they would. And I have a full circle thing I could talk about in a second. But it was such a cool thing that I realized this. I used Claude and I'll talk about that later, but it was recognizing and kind of called me out like you're doing a bunch of things that feel like |
| 2:37.1 | progress but don't actually... used Claude and I'll talk about that later, but it was recognizing and kind of called me out, |
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