The Antidote to Impulsiveness Is Not Will Power, It's Not Self Control

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The antidote to impulsiveness is forthough ithink. The people whom i interviewe book, these masters of doing what they say they're goin to do, the most indistractable people on earth. They don't have tremendous amounts of will power. What they have is a system so that when the time arises, they don't need will power and self control. And then finally, we look at this freaky science around how we can learn to love all kinds of mundane tasks called play anything. It doesn't necessarily have to be fun, believe it or not. It just has to focus our attention.

Nir Eyal is an author whose writing on technology, psychology, and business has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, and many other renowned publications. Previously, he taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. In this episode, Nir and Eric discuss his new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

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In This Interview, Nir Eyal and I discuss Becoming Indistractable and…

His book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
How what we pay attention to determines our quality of life
The importance of being in control of how you spend your time and attention in life
When it comes to being distracted, there are the blamers, the shamers, and the claimers
That the root cause of distraction is uncomfortable sensations
Time management is pain management
How you can’t stop emotions but you can respond to them
The 4 key steps of becoming indistractable
Traction and Dis-traction
How anything can become a distraction
That you can’t call something a distraction unless you know what you are distracted from
The tyranny of the to-do list
Deciding with intent when you’re going to do something
Timeboxing
Mastering our internal triggers: Learning to work with our uncomfortable emotions
The 3 reasons we get distracted
The antidote to impulsive behavior
Using an identity to help us become indistractable

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