Don't Blame your Smartphone | "Indistractable" author Nir Eyal

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Are digital devices, coworkers or social media distracting you? What does it take to channel you action into traction? Nir Eyal works at the intersection of psychology, technology and business teaching you how to avoid triggers and make pacts with yourself to actuate your intentions. Don’t blame phones social media or your corporate or personal culture. Learn how to build beneficial habits and stop getting distracted from the life you want.

LESSONS
Master internal triggers
Make time for traction not distraction
Hack back external triggers
Make pacts: effort, price & identity
Acknowledge the dizziness of freedom
Spend time according to your values
Learn tactics to cope with discomfort
Plan ahead with intent: create a time box calendar
Values define you
Take time to reflect not react
Address the three life domains

LINKS
NirAndFar.com/Indistractable
The schedule maker tool I mentioned is here: https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/
Distraction guide here: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/
Habits vs routines article here: https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/

TIME STAMPS
1:15 Interview begins with distraction vs traction
3:00 Pre-commitments & “dizziness of freedom”
4:45 External vs. internal triggers
6:00 Time management is pain management
7:45 Spend time according to your values
9:30 Tactics based on peer reviewed studies
10:30 Reacting verse reflection
11:00 Myth of multitasking vs. multi-channeling vs. task switching
13:30 The three life domains
16:00 Common source of distraction is other people
18:00 Reducing prescription mistakes
20:00 The pacts: keeping distraction out & yourself “in”
27:45 Being busy & getting it done
28:15 Building an in-distractible workplace: expectations vs. control
30:00 Psychological conditions of not being distracted
33:00 What’s the cost of screen time? The answer is “It Depends”
35:00 Kids, competency & autonomy
39:30 Joe & guest Kressa of Shower Toga discuss what they learned in how not to get distracted

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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Tim Nye & Guest Host Kressa Peterson. Co-hosts Sefra Alexandra and “Dr.” Johnny Waite are off seeking adventures and stories of resilience this week.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

Transcript

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0:00.0	We are here for Spartan Up Podcast on the Farm. I've got my friend
0:03.8	Chrisa. Did I say that right? Cressa Peterson? Yeah, you've nailed it.
0:07.4	She owns Shower Toga. She's awesome. She's stepping in for the usual team.
0:11.7	And we are talking about a guy named near I.
0:14.0	He drove all the way to West Point. I interviewed this guy. He's basically an expert,
0:19.5	Stanford professor, that wrote a book on how companies can create habit-forming products.
0:26.8	And then this book is like the antidote.
0:29.2	This book is indestractable and it's going to help us not get distracted by our devices and stay focused on the things that matter and get stuff done like you do.
0:39.0	Yeah. We all have this problem. We're all getting distracted with electronics and there's
0:45.8	going on in our brain. We don't even know that's happening. You listen to this
0:48.6	interview. Stay tuned for the end when we wrap it up and talk about and
0:52.3	really hit some of those those
0:54.1	points and you are going to be less distracted I promise. Bartends. You may be hearing the train go by as we do this interview, but I'm with a guy named Near I.
1:15.0	Basically, this interview is going to help you get unhooked from devices, or if you're a business,
1:21.0	figure out how to hook people hopefully for good.
1:24.0	Or how to stop getting distracted, right, from anything.
1:27.0	I mean, this is actually a really important point because we should define what distraction is.
1:31.0	There's this model in the book I think is really important to define
1:33.6	that you know the opposite of distraction is not focus. The opposite of distraction is
1:39.0	traction. Now both words come from the same Latin root Trahare which means to pull and both words
1:45.0	traction and distraction end in the same five letters action reminding us this isn't
1:49.4	stuff that happens to us it's actions that we take so So traction is any action that pulls you towards
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