Moment 149: Why You Are Easily Distracted & How To FIX it! Nir Eyal

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this moment, behaviour and habit design expert, Ni Eyal discusses how to beat procrastination and distraction. One of the first major steps is being able to master the internal triggers that are trying to pull your attention away. Nir believes that to do this you need to try and understand the underlying feelings behind these urge. As he says, time management is pain management, and all human behaviour is about trying to escape discomfort. Nir says that finding these underlying feelings can be achieved by writing down the sensations you feel just before distraction, this allows you identify them and then reframe them to your advantage. Because, if you don’t master these internal triggers, they become your master. Another major step to beat procrastination is by actually scheduling time to be distracted. Nir calls this ‘The 10 Minute Rule’, which allows you to give in to any distraction in your scheduled time, but only for 10 minutes! Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/osVkcTMLbHb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Nir: https://www.nirandfar.com https://www.instagram.com/neyal99/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One of the things this podcast has taught me from speaking to all these people across multiple fields
0:07.4	is that sometimes we can feel like our body, our wiring is against us, especially as it relates to health, right?
0:14.9	So, you know, we know sugar is bad.
0:17.9	So why does our brain send us these cravings to go and eat sugar?
0:21.6	And in the case of distractions and sort of behavioral psychology I know instinctively and
0:28.3	intuitively that distractions like hanging out on Tik-Tok for an hour is bad but my brain is doing it.
0:38.0	What does that tell us about how we should go about adopting behavior change.
0:43.0	Yeah, so that's why it's really about this holistic model.
0:45.6	So that's what took me the most time to figure out was what are the four mandatory
0:49.9	components of living without regret, of doing what you say you're going to do.
0:55.0	So the first step is mastering these internal triggers, figuring out why you feel this way,
0:59.0	right? What is that underlying sensation? So if you're trying to avoid that chocolate bar, it might not be
1:05.1	hunger, right? So I used to be clinically obese and I'll tell you what, I did not eat to excess because
1:11.7	I was hungry. I was eating to excess because I was hungry. I was eating to excess because I was lonely. I was
1:15.4	eating to excess because I was bored. I was eating to excess because I felt guilty
1:19.5	about how much I had just eaten. It wasn't just about the hunger, right?
1:23.6	Very few people who are obese
1:25.8	are just hungry all the time.
1:27.0	That's not what's going on.
1:28.0	It's because we're eating our feelings.
1:29.8	That's what's happening.
1:31.0	So that's the first step.
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