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How You Can Stop Distraction Right Now with Nir Eyal

The Science of Success

CHAPTER

How to Deal With External Triggers

The book is full of tactics. But what's even more important is the strategy. Tactics are what we do. Strategy is why we do it. And so my contribution, I think to this field, is that now we can have a clear picture as to why we get distracted. So I would constantly get distracted day in and day out and not realize why or do anything about it. What's that definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results? Like an idiot, I would repeatedly get distracted day after day and not do anything aboutIt. The first step is to master internal triggers. The second step is to make time for traction. The third step is to hack back

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