TMBA510: Driven to Distraction
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
One of Dan and Ian's favorite things to talk about on this show is the role that technology plays in our lives.
They are particularly curious about the ways that new technology and social media can affect our ability to be productive and successful entrepreneurs.
Today's guest is a bonafide expert when it comes to technological addiction and how to fight it.
Nir Eyal is an accomplished and thoughtful writer on the topic of behavioral design.
Nir gained notoriety for writing the book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and he is also the author of an excellent blog at NirAndFar.com.
We have invited him on to the podcast today to talk about his new book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
Indistractable is all about making sure technology takes an appropriate place in your life, and how we can find more space in our own lives to be present and productive.
Stick around to the end of the show to hear a brand new feature on this podcast, which includes a very exclusive offer for listeners of this show.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's very easy and convenient to blame technology or to blame a distraction for doing something |
| 0:05.6 | to us. |
| 0:06.6 | We love blaming something outside of us for causing our circumstances. |
| 0:10.9 | But what I realize is that, you know, the more I research this topic of distraction is that |
| 0:15.5 | distraction has been with the human race forever. |
| 0:21.5 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:23.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now, |
| 0:26.9 | in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the |
| 0:31.0 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:35.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:41.0 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, buddy. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome back to the pod. |
| 0:53.8 | We are in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:55.6 | We got the fancy shore microphones. |
| 0:57.8 | I don't even got to hold my microphone. |
| 0:59.4 | It's nice. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm hands free right now. |
| 1:03.0 | It's good to be home. |
| 1:04.3 | It's good to be home today. |
| 1:06.4 | We got an episode. |
| 1:08.2 | It's a special episode because we got an incredible advertising partner in smashdigital.com. We got an incredible dynamite deal. What is a dynamite deal? We're going to tell you guys. You're going to find out. It's a brand new segment of the show. It's a brand new segment. We got rock reviews and news. How long is this episode going to take? Which is an old, this is going to be a long episode. |
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