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The Mark Divine Show

Distractions Begin Within (with Nir Eyal)

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

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

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Be inspired, and don't measure your success by how many boxes get checked off on a to-do list. Stop making to-do lists and start mapping out your day with how much time you will spend on each task you are committed to doing. Technology is a tool that can help build healthy and lasting habits, according to author and consultant Nir Eyal (@NirEyal). Nir’s groundbreaking book Hooked is a guide to building products people use because they want to, not because they have to. In hi...

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0:00.0

If you wake up in the morning and you say to yourself, how do I need to spend my day?

0:07.8

How do I want to spend my time?

0:08.8

And the first thing you look for is your to-do list rather than your calendar, you're already

0:12.6

done.

0:13.6

You've already lost.

0:14.6

Because to-do lists have no constraints.

0:16.6

There's no constraint.

0:17.6

You can always add more and more and more and more so you get home from work at the end

0:20.2

of the day.

0:21.2

You feel like you've run ragged.

0:22.2

And you look at your to-do list and you still got a hundred things on it.

0:28.2

Hi, you're at the Marked Mind Show, this is your host Mark Divine.

0:32.8

On this show, I showcase inspirational people from all walks of life, exploring what it

0:37.8

means to be fearless through the lens of these inspirational and resilient leaders,

0:42.1

stoic philosophers, entrepreneurs, amazing authors, and people who are really doing cutting-edge

0:48.2

research such as my guest today, near y'all.

0:52.0

Here writes consultant teaches around the intersection of psychology, technology, and

0:56.3

business.

0:57.3

He co-founded and sold two high tech companies in 2003, dubbed by the MIT Technology Review

1:02.5

as the profit of habit forming technology.

1:05.3

His first book was hooked, how to build habit forming products, and we're going to be

1:10.2

talking today about his next book called Indistractable, how to control your attention and

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