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How You Can Stop Distraction Right Now with Nir Eyal

The Science of Success

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The Opposite of Distraction Is Action

The opposite of distraction is action. You have to proactively figure out what do you actually want to achieve? If you're getting distracted from nothing, then are you really being distracted at all? I call it the myth of the to do list. That productivity experts tell us if you just put things on a to do list magically they'll get done somehow. And so this is part of this process that I talk about called sinking up with stakeholders where we need to have this regular check in with the various stakeholders in our life.

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