How To Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life with Nir Eyal #120

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done. You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, you receive an email that you need to reply to. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become ‘indistractable?’ My guest on today’s conversation is an international bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal. Nir started his career by helping tech-companies develop products that are intentionally habit-forming. Now, Nir has written a new book, Indistractable: How To Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, which explains how to get the best of technology and reclaim your attention, without letting it get the best of you. Nir believes that we all have the power to become indistractable and in today’s conversation he reveals how. He explains what really drives human behavior and why ‘time management is pain management’. Nir also shares actionable techniques that will help you design your time, realise your ambitions, and live the life you really want. I hope you find this conversation empowering. Show notes available at: https://drchatterjee.com/120 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:00.0	Fundamentally, if we don't face the fact that everything we do is about a desire to escape discomfort,
0:05.3	we will always become distracted by something.
0:08.5	If we don't understand the root cause of distraction, why we get distracted in the first place,
0:13.5	what internal triggers we are trying to satiate, then it's a lost cause.
0:17.5	We have to start there.
0:19.0	Hi, my name is Ronggan Chatsy.
0:22.9	Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:28.8	Hello and welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
0:33.5	Here we are at episode 120.
0:41.7	So I'm recording this intro as we speak in a hotel room in London.
0:47.8	I've not been away from my house since the lockdown started. So that's about four months ago.
0:52.9	I have to say it feels really, really strange. I certainly think that being on the road again is going to take a little bit of
0:55.2	getting used to. It was really interesting that when I'm in a hotel room away from my family,
1:01.7	I start to engage in behaviours that I don't tend to do as much when I'm at home. I look at my phone
1:07.6	a lot more in the evening. I find myself flicking from website to website,
1:11.7	from Instagram to Twitter, to Facebook, and then back again. And there's nothing inherently
1:17.4	wrong with doing these things, but I do think it's helpful to understand why. What I'm really
1:23.9	doing is distracting myself, distracting myself from the feeling of boredom or stress
1:29.5	or loneliness. And distraction is the topic of today's conversation. My guest is Neer IAL,
1:37.5	best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer and behavioural design experts. Now, Neair started his career by helping tech companies develop
1:46.7	products that are intentionally habits forming. And now he's written a fabulous new book called
1:53.6	Indistractable, where he explains, amongst other things, how to get the best out of technology
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