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#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The First Step to Being Indistractable Isn't to Blame the Technology

The first step to becoming indistractable is not to blame the technology, says Oulrady. It's to claim responsibility for these uncomfortable sensations by mastering the internal triggers. The more shame we feel, the more of these internal triggers are likely to seek escape with distraction. We don't want to be a blamer; we dn't wan to be a shameor. A claimer claims responsibility, not for how they feel. This is a really important point. You cannot control your feelings. There's no magical time machine to go back in time before these these technologies existed. So that's where the word responsibility comes from - it's how we respond to those internal triggers

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