Stanford Habit Expert: Why You Can’t Focus, Why To-Do Lists Fail & How to Become Indistractable | Nir Eyal
Thriving Minds with Alberto ZandiShow Notes
Most people blame their phone for destroying their attention. Nir Eyal says the phone is often only the outlet, that 90% of distraction begins with something happening inside us, and that the real solution is not deleting every app but learning to manage discomfort, plan our time and challenge the beliefs keeping us stuck.
Nir Eyal is a behavioural design expert, former lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and the author of Hooked, Indistractable and Beyond Belief.
He first revealed the psychology companies use to create habit-forming products, before developing a practical system to help people reclaim their attention and follow through on what they intend to do.
He explains: ◼ Why your phone is probably not the real reason you cannot focus ◼ Why boredom, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue and uncertainty drive most distraction ◼ The four-step system for taking back control of your attention ◼ Why traditional to-do lists can make you feel busy, unsuccessful and incapable of managing your time ◼ Why emails and other work-related tasks can become distractions disguised as productivity ◼ How the beliefs and labels you repeat can change what you see, how you behave and what you believe you are capable of achieving
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