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How You Can Stop Distraction Right Now with Nir Eyal

The Science of Success

CHAPTER

How to Deal With Internal Triggers

The first step is to realize that feeling bad isn't bad. It's normal. The baseline human condition is wanting, craving, desiring more. We can use these internal triggers,. these uncomfortable emotional states to help us do more and be better. All these things come from a desire to want more. That's how we advance. If there was ever a tribe of Homo sapiens who was happy, hunky, dory and satisfied with life and didn't feel these internal triggers they would have been killed by their predecessors.

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