Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life with Nir Eyal: An EOFire Classic from 2019
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2019. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Nir Eyal lectured at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and his first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, is an international bestseller and taught Silicon Valley how to design behavior. His next book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at: NirAndFar.com.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The antidote to impulsiveness is forethought. You can conquer destruction by planning ahead.
2. Everything you do is to escape physical or psychological discomfort, so when you procrastinate you're always escaping an uncomfortable sensation
3. You have more power than you think, and you can become indistractable!
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| 0:00.0 | Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the HubSpot |
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| 0:19.4 | the word indestractable. How to Control your attention and choose your life to drop these |
| 0:25.1 | value bombs I have brought near I all into E.O. Fire Studios near lecture at |
| 0:30.0 | Stanford's Graduate School of Business and his first book Hooked How to Build Habit Forming Products is an international bestseller and he taught Silicon Valley how to design behavior |
| 0:39.2 | His next book Indistractable how to control your attention and choose your life reveals the |
| 0:43.7 | Achilles heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of |
| 0:47.9 | technology without letting it get the best of us and today for our nation we'll be |
| 0:51.6 | talking about how to become |
| 0:53.2 | indestractable. We'll talk about the antidote to impulsiveness. We'll also talk about how to |
| 0:58.4 | escape physical and psychological discomfort and so much more. |
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