Manage Distractions and Control Your Attention with Nir Eyal of Indistractible • 096
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions?
As a society, we’re pretty distracted right? You can tell just by noticing how many people are staring at their phones all day long.
But what if tech isn’t the real problem… or at least not the root of the problem?
Think back to before smart phones. Without the endless apps and gadgets we have now, were you accomplishing absolutely all of your tasks, errands and big dreams?
I was still procrastinating everything to the last minute. I was still finding ways to distract myself from what my soul REALLY wanted to do… or tuning into myself enough to even discover what that was.
So today we are talking to Nir Eyal. He’s the best selling author of Hooked, on how to build habit forming products… and now his newest book, Indistractible: How to Control your Attention and Choose Your Life. I know none of you want to reach the end of your life realizing how much of it you wasted, so pay attention to this episode!
We will learn:
- Why the opposite of distraction is not focus.
- And what it really isHow to use our natural tendencies for good
- How to build traction toward the things we REALLY want in life
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| 0:30.3 | Welcome to Mind Love, episode 96. |
| 0:33.0 | Today's episode is all about how to manage distraction and control our attention. |
| 0:38.0 | For many of us, we have become habituated to turning to a distraction when we don't want to feel that |
| 0:45.7 | uncomfortable sensation. I'm at a party and I don't feel very comfortable around |
| 0:50.0 | other people so I'll just look at my phone because it provides escape. I'm at my desk and I've got to work on that big |
| 0:54.9 | project I don't really feel like doing so I'll do a bunch of other little tasks that I know are not as important |
| 0:59.3 | but at least they're not as hard as a thing I know I really need to do. The first step is recognizing that internal |
| 1:05.4 | trigger. What's that discomfort you're looking to escape? And then being honest with yourself |
| 1:10.7 | and writing it down. Talking to yourself in that third person |
| 1:14.2 | to give yourself a little bit of space |
| 1:15.5 | between that emotion, that uncomfortable sensation, |
| 1:18.0 | and the action of actually getting distracted. |
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