Nir Eyal is a behavioural expert and bestselling author in the field of attention. His work to help people become Indistractable has helped people create systems and mindsets for building focus.
We all know what we need to do to achieve most of our goals. Yet we don't achieve them because of unplanned distractions and poor attention management. To live the life we truly want we need to learn the art of managing distraction and becoming indistractable.
We discuss the biggest insights from years of research and science to help you live with more peace and less chaos whilst you get the important things done whilst also enjoying down time.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to building focus - Nir Eyal
02:48 What is Distraction
03:58 Any action can be traction or distraction
07:22 Sam's 10 day meditation
08:21 Story behind how everything happened - got distracted whilst spending time with her daughter
10:26 Reason why we get distracted - internal triggers
13:49 Vipassana 10-day retreats
15:06 Feeling bad is not bad
19:01 detachment from reality
21:26 syncify
21:48 Making pacts - Price, Effort, Identity
22:09 Effort pact
23:27 Price pact
23:40 Identity pact
24:34 Cigarettes and being indistractable
31:50 Nir's next mission
32:40 Send off
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