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Sep 2019
49m 18s

How To Control Your Attention And Become...

Chris Williamson
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Nir Eyal is an author, business owner and Teacher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design. What would life be like if we didn't get distracted? What if we always followed through with the things we said we were going to do? That's the purpose of today's discussion. Expect to learn how internal and external triggers can combine to form a bree ... Show More
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