Why can’t we just do the things we know we should do? It’s a simple question with a very complex answer.
To help us answer it, I sat down with my old friend, Nir Eyal, a behavioral design expert and author of the best-selling book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
I love Nir’s approach because he doesn’t linger on the sur ... Show More
Jul 1
How to Build Confidence, Solved
Confidence isn't something you build. It's what's left over. You've done the pose. Hands on hips, chest out, an affirmation on a sticky note stuck to the mirror. And then you walked into the room feeling exactly the same, or worse. Here's what nobody tells you: the entire concept ... Show More
3h 56m
Jun 3
How to Change Your Life, Solved
If you've ever tried to change something about yourself, failed, tried again, and concluded you must just be broken, here's some good news: you're probably not broken. You've just been aiming at the wrong target for years. Who you are is actually a layered system. Most people fai ... Show More
4h 58m
May 20
Why We Stay in Bad Relationships, Solved
Why do smart, emotionally aware people stay in relationships that are clearly destroying them? Drew and I dug into the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard marriage, to walk through the seven psychological mechanisms that quietly lock people inside bad relationships and make leaving feel ... Show More
1h 48m
Apr 2023
How You Can Stop Distraction Right Now with Nir Eyal
In this episode we talk about one of the MOST important skills in the modern world - the ability to be inDISTRACTable. Are you sick and tired of distraction? Do you feel constantly overwhelmed in a world of notifications, demands, messages, and more and more information flying at ... Show More
51m 41s
Jul 2021
How To Focus Your Attention And Stay Indistractable - Nir Eyal
You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague wants to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by and, o ... Show More
39m 20s
May 2020
Nir Eyal on Becoming Indistractable
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 Busin ... Show More
58m 16s
Jul 2020
How To Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life with Nir Eyal #120
We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work never seems to get done. You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work ... Show More
1h 21m
Dec 2023
Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)
<p><strong>Nir Eyal</strong> is the author of two best-selling books, <em>Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products</em> and <em>Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life</em>. He writes, consults, and teaches at the intersection of psychology, technolo ... Show More
1h 24m
Sep 2019
Becoming Indistractable with Nir Eyal, Behavioral Designer and Author
“Whatever you do with your time, I want you to do it with intent. That's the goal here. It’s not about getting off of technology, it’s about using this stuff with intent.” Nir Eyal is a behavioral designer and bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Hoo ... Show More
44m 11s
Aug 2024
How Distractions Are Ruining Your Life (90% of Distraction Triggers Are INTERNAL) | Nir Eyal
#98 Feeling distracted and unproductive? Discover how to take control of your attention and master productivity with Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable. In this episode, Nir dives into his four-step framework for becoming indistractable by mastering internal triggers, making time ... Show More
57m 28s
Sep 2019
Becoming Indistractable | Nir Eyal
<p>Five years ago, Nir Eyal showed the world how tech-companies build apps, games, and platforms that highjack your attention and become near impossible to stop using in his book, <em>Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products</em>. That book became a global phenomenon and opene ... Show More
1h 31m