Stop distractions from blocking your ability to complete your ideas
Nir Eyal is a behavioural expert and bestselling author in the field of attention. His work to help people become Indistractable has helped people create systems and mindsets for building focus.
We all know what we need to do to achieve most of our goals. Yet we don't achieve them because of unplanned distractions and poor attention management. To live the life we truly want we need to learn the art of managing distraction and becoming indistractable.
We discuss the biggest insights from years of research and science to help you live with more peace and less chaos whilst you get the important things done whilst also enjoying down time.
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00:00 Introduction to building focus - Nir Eyal
02:48 What is Distraction
03:58 Any action can be traction or distraction
07:22 Sam's 10 day meditation
08:21 Story behind how everything happened - got distracted whilst spending time with her daughter
10:26 Reason why we get distracted - internal triggers
13:49 Vipassana 10-day retreats
15:06 Feeling bad is not bad
18:59 BetterHelp advert
20:31 Detachment from reality
22:56 syncify
23:18 Making pacts - Price, Effort, Identity
23:39 Effort pact
24:57 Price pact
25:10 Identity pact
26:03 Cigarettes and being indistractable
33:20 Nir's next mission
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