How to Control Your Attention & Choose Your Life (w/ Nir Eyal)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Nir Eyal is the author of two New York Times Best Sellers — Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

Previously, he taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School, sold two technology companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.”

In this interview, Nir talks about what his life’s been like since moving to Singapore and how you can resist distraction & take power back over your time.

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0:00.0	There are restrictions.
0:01.0	So like drugs carry the death penalty.
0:04.0	Like they will cane you and kill you if you bring in drugs.
0:08.2	They are super, super strict about that.
0:10.5	Even things like chewing gum, right?
0:12.2	Chewing gum's illegal here.
0:13.8	Why?
0:14.3	Because it's a communal society.
0:16.2	It's like the individual doesn't matter as much as the community.
0:19.2	You'll look at New York, like the streets look like Dalmatians because there's all these you know chewing
0:24.2	gum all over the place is disgusting. So that's the rule because we live so
0:27.9	tightly together there's some things you can't do but the way they've done it is
0:32.1	pretty incredible it's hard not to be impressed to be honest it comes with trade-offs
0:38.0	What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy mr. refills his own water bottle a k-k-a-roba.
0:42.4	I can't lose aka
0:44.0	no-agagan
0:45.0	today's episode I talked to an old friend of mine near E-all
0:48.0	he's not old but I've known him a very long time
0:49.0	he is the author of two New York Times best-selling books
0:52.0	hooked and indestractable.
0:53.5	I actually met them when we were both building
0:55.2	Facebook games.
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