How can we learn to use technology as a tool rather than becoming a tool used by technology?

On today's show, Best Selling Author, Near IL teaches us how to increase our focus in the age of exponentially increasing distraction.

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show dies, two men, eight kids,

co-created by two different women, 13 multimillion dollar businesses.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time Show.

3.1, 2.1, here we go! Yes. Yes, yes, and yes.

Thrive Nation.

Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Thrive Time show.

And on today's show, we're going to be interviewing a Wall Street

journal best-selling author by the name of Near I L. Near spent years of his life in the

video gaming and advertising industry

where he learned and applied these techniques described in his best selling book

what you have to buy if you have a soul called Hooked. He's taught courses on applied consumer psychology at the

Stanford Graduate School of Business and he's been a frequent speaker at both industry

conferences and Fortune 500 companies.

Thrive Nation, check this out.

Throughout his career, his work,

his writing has been featured

in the Harvard Business Review,

The Atlantic, Tech Crunch, the Huffington Post,

the entrepreneur, magazine, Post, The Entrepreneur, Magazine, Forbes Psychology Today,

and we've tricked him to being on the podcast today.

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