Nir Eyal || How to Be Indistractable

<p>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: <a href="http://nirandfar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NirAndFar.com</a></p> <p>In this episode we discuss:</p> <ul> <li>The one superpower that Nir would want</li> <li>The root cause of distraction</li> <li>What really motivates us</li> <li>How distraction starts from within</li> <li>How time management is pain management</li> <li>What is the role of boredom in distractibility?</li> <li>How to raise indistractible kids</li> <li>How to remove the external trigger of kids</li> <li>The critical question that people should ask</li> <li>How can you prevent distraction with pacts?</li> <li>How we can use precommitments to keep ourselves focused</li> <li>How people overuse of the word “addiction”</li> <li>The stigmatization of ADHD</li> <li>Treating a kid’s use of technology the same way we think of a swimming pool</li> <li>How children are “hypocrisy detection devices”</li> <li>The importance of setting a good example for children</li> <li>Self-determination theory and the rise of cell phone use</li> <li>Can too much concentration, and too little daydreaming, be a bad thing?</li> </ul> <hr /> <p>Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support">https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support</a></p>