Nir Eyal on Becoming Indestractable
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life."
He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.
In this conversation he talks with Erik about the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.
Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
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| 0:28.6 | actively searching for a new job |
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| 0:33.0 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.0 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
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| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
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| 1:04.5 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and this is the show where I talk to the people. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To-Do List. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm your host Eric Fisher and this is the show |
| 1:34.0 | where I talk to the people behind the productivity. This week I'm thrilled to share with you a conversation |
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