How to Be Indistractable with Nir Eyal

Today it’s really great to have Nir Eyal on the podcast. Nir is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and also taught at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, was an international bestseller. His current book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles’ heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at: NirAndFar.com

In this episode we discuss:

The one superpower that Nir would want
The root cause of distraction
What really motivates us
How distraction starts from within
How time management is pain management
What is the role of boredom in distractibility?
How to raise indistractible kids
How to remove the external trigger of kids
The critical question that people should ask
How can you prevent distraction with pacts?
How we can use precommitments to keep ourselves focused
How people overuse of the word “addiction”
The stigmatization of ADHD
Treating a kid’s use of technology the same way we think of a swimming pool
How children are “hypocrisy detection devices”
The importance of setting a good example for children
Self-determination theory and the rise of cell phone use
Can too much concentration, and too little daydreaming, be a bad thing?

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About the guest

Nir Eyal

Podcast Guest

Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer, and former Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer who writes on behavioral design and habit formation. He is the author of the bestsellers Hooked and Indistractable.

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