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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Nir Eyal (Part 1) - Become Indistractable in Four Science-Backed Steps

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is the simply brilliant Nir Eyal. I really mean it. It was hard to title this episode because of the sheer amount of incredibly practical points Nir shared with us.Nir writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by T...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.3

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.0

Welcome to slow more.

0:27.0

My guest today is,

0:35.0

today is simply brilliant in so many ways.

0:40.0

I mean, prepare yourself for an incredible conversation near E.

0:45.6

Is an author, but he writes and consults

0:48.6

and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

0:54.0

He has two best-sellers that are both incredibly insightful.

0:59.0

He is the author of Hooked, which was a book about how to build habit-forming products.

1:05.2

So if you're building good products for the planet, hopefully,

1:08.8

you're building products that are building good habits.

1:12.2

And then indestructible, which is how to control

1:16.4

your attention and choose your life.

1:19.4

So basically, how to, as an individual,

1:22.4

work against the products and other things that distract us in our day-to-day engagement with life.

1:29.0

Nere previously taught as a lecturer in marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Haso-Plattner

1:37.7

Institute of Design at Stanford. He co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by the MIT Technology Review as the profit of habit-forming technology.

1:52.0

Indestructible, in specific is an incredible book.

1:57.0

It received critical acclaim winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award,

2:02.0

as well as having been named one of the best business and

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