How To Control Your Attention And Choose Your Life - Nir Eyal | PREI 208

Passive Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing with Marco Santarelli, Investor and Entrepreneur.

Business, Entrepreneurship, Education, Business:investing, How To, Investing

4.6 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We are constantly reaching for something, whether it's more money, more experiences, more knowledge, more status, more stuff. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could just stay focused and overcome distractions? If you care about your work, your family, and your physical and mental well-being, you must learn how to become indistractable and control your attention as Marco Santarelli’s guest, Nir Eyal, puts it. Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology and business. His latest book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, received critical acclaim, winning the 2019 Outstanding Works of Literature Award as well as being named one of the best business and leadership books of the year by Amazon. For more information and inquiries on this please visit: https://www.noradarealestate.com/rent-guarantee-insurance/ Download your FREE copy of The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing: https://www.NoradaRealEstate.com/FreeGuide/?utm_source=Episode_Summary IF YOU LIKE THIS PODCAST we would love if you would go to iTunes and Subscribe, Rate & Review our podcast. This will greatly help share our podcast with others wanting to learn. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn
0:05.2	how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term.
0:09.2	And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli.
0:12.3	Welcome to passive real estate investing. Now here's your host Marco Santorelli.
0:13.6	Welcome to passive real estate investing.
0:15.6	I'm your host, Marco Santorelli.
0:17.9	You know, the ancient Greeks immortalized the story
0:21.0	of a man who was perpetually distracted, we call something that is
0:24.9	desirable but just out of reach tantalizing after his name. The story goes that
0:29.9	Tantalus was banished to the underworld by his father Zeus as punishment.
0:35.2	And there he found himself waiting in a pool of water, while above his head dangled a tree
0:40.0	ripe with fruit just ready for the picking. Well the curse seems benign but when
0:45.2	Tantalus tried to pluck the fruit from the tree the branch moved away from
0:49.2	him always just out of reach. When he bent down to drink the cool water, it receded so that he could
0:56.2	really never quench his thirst. Tantalus' punishment was to yearn for things he desired but can
1:02.4	never grasp.
1:04.0	We are constantly reaching for something, whether it's more money, more experiences, more knowledge, more status, more stuff. And the ancient Greeks thought that this was just part of
1:16.4	the curse of being a fallible mortal and used this story to portray the power of our
1:22.1	incessant desires. But what would be possible if you followed
1:27.7	through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could just stay focused and overcome distractions?
1:35.0	If you care about your work, your family, and your physical and mental well-being,
1:40.0	you must learn how to become indestractable as my guest near Aial puts it.
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