How Distractions Are Ruining Your Life (90% of Distraction Triggers Are INTERNAL) | Nir Eyal

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Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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#98 Feeling distracted and unproductive? Discover how to take control of your attention and master productivity with Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable. In this episode, Nir dives into his four-step framework for becoming indistractable by mastering internal triggers, making time for traction, hacking back external triggers, and blocking out distraction. Through practical techniques like the 10-minute rule and price pacts, Eyal shares how you can reclaim your focus and live a more intentional life. Get Nir Eyal’s book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life here: https://erika.com/how-to-control-your-attention Special thanks to our partners & sponsors: Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Aura: Get a 14-day free trial with my sponsor Aura and see where your personal information is being leaked online - https://erikataughtme.com/aura Bilt Rewards - erikataughtme.com/bilt Join my free 5-Day Investing Challenge to learn how to make your first $10,000 with investing even as a beginner: https://erika.com/investing-challenge Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Prefer to listen on the go? Listen wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.erikataughtme.com/follow Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erika.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast, even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. Connect with me on Instagram at / erikankullberg and / erikataughtme For more information, go to https://www.erikataughtme.com/ Join Erika Kullberg Insiders, my private personal finance community using this 7-day free trial: https://erika.com/eki/free-trial Join my free 5-Day Savings Challenge to save $1,000 in a month -- without penny pinching or changing your lifestyle: https://erika.com/savings-challenge Read all my latest articles at Erika.com: https://erika.com/home Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erika.com/3D-money Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erika.com/mastering-YT For more of my free resources: https://erika.com/all-links

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0:00.0	One of the most damaging things we can do is to say I am the kind of person who dot dot dot very very dangerous because when we believe we are a something we conform to that. Now this can be used for good as well as bad.
0:15.4	It's the way you describe yourself. I am indestractable. It's who you are.
0:19.6	Nere Ail is a best-selling author and behavioral design expert who explores the psychology behind habit-forming products and offers advice on managing attention and habits effectively.
0:30.6	Here is a cold heart truth that most people hate to hear. You cannot call something a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from.
0:39.0	Distraction is not something that happens to us. People talk about it like that, right? Oh, I was doing some work and my kid
0:44.8	distracted me or my boss distracted me or my phone distracted me. Uh-uh. The distraction is the action that you
0:50.6	yourself took. Now, traction is any action that pulls you towards what you said you were going to do.
0:57.5	The difference between traction and distraction is one word,
1:00.5	and that one word is...
1:01.5	I'm Erica Kohlberg and you're listening to the Erica Tautme podcast.
1:09.0	Hi, it's Erica Kohlberg and before we dive into today's podcast episode, I have an exciting announcement
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1:20.4	lifestyle.
1:21.8	On Monday, I'm running my free five-day savings challenge
1:25.2	where you'll discover simple and creative ways that you can save extra money every
1:30.2	month and whatever you want to do with that extra money is up to you.
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1:50.6	whether you're a budgeting novice or a finance expert and they're going to get
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