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How You Can Stop Distraction Right Now with Nir Eyal

The Science of Success

CHAPTER

The Distraction Crisis

Roxanne Jones: I was watching one of your speeches on YouTube doing a little bit of research about the book and you opened with a blooper reel of people on their phones, like walking into objects and stumbling into things. And embarrassingly, not even a week ago, I was walking and I was reading something on my phone and I literally smashed my head into this extended deck that didn't have like, there was nothing on the ground, but it was like elevated and I just walked right into it. "I mean, distraction and no, it's hitting home for me," she says.

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