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E43: Nir Eyal - How to Become Indistractable

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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The Opposite of Distraction Is Not Focus

If all human behavior is prompted by a desire to escape discomfort, that means that time management is pain management. So the idea here is how do you train your brain to no longer get relief from this uncomfortable state through distraction, but rather through acts of traction? That's what this is all about. And you say, acts of atraction? Ye. The opposite o attraction is distraction, anything that pulls you away from what you plan to do. This is why this is super important. Number one, anything can be a distraction. I used to sit down at my desk and i say, ok, now i'm going to work on that big project. But if we give in to that

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