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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 2 - Nir Eyal On How To Stop Procrastinating

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this episode Nir Eyal, International Best-Selling Author, lecturer and inventor explains the psychological reasoning behind our procrastination.

As entrepreneurs we all have a clear vision for what we want and who we want to be. But no matter how strong this vision is, procrastination and distraction somehow find a way to stand between us and getting stuff done.

Nir breaks down the science behind distraction and offers advice in how we can become ‘Indistractable’.

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0:00.0

The fundamental question, which I know everybody wants to have the answer to, and your book

0:10.5

is incredibly, positively reviewed.

0:12.9

I checked everywhere, and the reviews are astounding.

0:17.0

So I'm presuming you're the guy that has the answer.

0:19.4

The question is, and this is the fundamental question I guess you're addressing in the book,

0:22.6

is why don't we do the things that we want to do?

0:26.9

My life is full of things that I really, really want to do, as is everybody's, whether

0:31.2

it's calling my mom or like taking the trash out or buying that thing on Amazon, I know

0:36.0

I need in the house that's causing me great inconvenience.

0:38.7

Or exercising or eating right or whatever it might be.

0:42.0

I just think, imagine the entrepreneur, the family member, the boyfriend, I would be,

0:48.2

if I could just bloody do these things that I want to do.

0:50.7

Amen.

0:51.7

So how do I do it?

0:53.7

Yeah.

0:54.7

So it starts from understanding why we don't do these things.

0:58.0

That fundamentally the reason we procrastinate, the reason we get distracted, the reason we

1:01.8

don't do what we say we're going to do, the reason we don't live with personal integrity

1:06.8

is because of an impulse control problem.

1:10.6

That's really what it is.

1:11.6

It's not that we're bad people, it's not that we're broken, it's not that we're messed

1:15.1

up in some way.

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