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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus

Modern Wisdom

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How to Build Habit Forming Products

Nero has written a book called indistractable, which argues that the solution to addiction is changing your individual behaviour. But in his previous book, hooked er, he describes it as a cook book for human behavior. He says things like, picture yourself as a leaf on a river and imagine yourself floating down the river animl bit of a disjunction between the most powerful fucking machinery in the world. And picture yourself as an ordinary user of the internet right? That's what i felt very uncomforta.

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