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Becoming Indistractable with Nir Eyal [BEST OF]

The 5 AM Miracle: Healthy Productivity for High Achievers

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How Do We Start Managing Distraction?

How do we manage the distractions that are kind of inherently built into our tools? Traction is any action that pulls you towards what you want to do, things that you do with intent. And distraction is anything that pulls you away. They are either external triggers, or internal triggers. We turn to distraction when we feel stressed, bored, lonesome, uncertain, fatigued. It's these uncomfortable emotions that draw us to use a distracting device as an motional pacification system.

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