Nir Eyal wants to add a little mindfulness to mindless behaviour. In a very meta way, the behavioural engineer learned how to boost his productivity through the 5 years process of writing the best-seller Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Today, Nir Eyal explains the benefits of inserting effort and friction between us and our distractions. We discuss how to flip your distraction into action, why you should throw away your to-do list, and how to tame the beast that is your email inbox! We talk about:<ul>
<li>How smoking cessation strategies help us to break bad habits</li>
<li>Inserting mindfulness into mindless behaviour</li>
<li>Internal and external triggers</li>
<li>The antidote to impulsiveness if forethought</li>
<li>The 80-20 rule for your email box</li>
<li>Why to-do lists destroy productivity!</li>
</ul>

Nir Eyal wants to add a little mindfulness to mindless behaviour. In a very meta way, the behavioural engineer learned how to boost his productivity through the 5 years process of writing the best-seller Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Today, Nir Eyal explains the benefits of inserting effort and friction between us and our distractions. We discuss how to flip your distraction into action, why you should throw away your to-do list, and how to tame the beast that is your email inbox! We talk about: How smoking cessation strategies help us to break bad habits Inserting mindfulness into mindless behaviour Internal and external triggers The antidote to impulsiveness if forethought The 80-20 rule for your email box Why to-do lists destroy productivity!

Going From Distraction To Action with Nir Eyal

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