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#120 How To Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life with Nir Eyal

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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The Opposite of Distraction Is Not Focus

The opposite of distraction is traction. Both words come from the same latin root, trahare, which means to pull. Traction is any action that pulls you towards what you want to do with your time. In my book, anything you do with intent, even checking social media, as long as you are doing them with intent because you want to - there's nothing wrong with it. It's still an act of traction. And so we've got attraction, we've got distraction. Now it's important to understand what influences us,. What prods us to either attraction or distraction? We have our external triggers, many of them you've mentioned. These are the pings and d...

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