How to Stay Focused and Beat Distraction - Nir Eyal

So there's something about the human condition that makes us distractable, that makes us constantly look for other things. And that probably served us on the plains of the Serengeti 200,000 years ago when, you know, you were constantly looking out for danger, you're looking out for opportunity. But, you know, today that that's not necessarily a skill that we want to run rampant. We need to learn how to control it. If you can remove external triggers from your environment, so for example, if people are trying to stop a substance abuse, sure, abstinence might be able to work for you.

But how do you remove the triggers? for technology. There's nothing wrong with external triggers. If an external trigger tells you, hey, it's time for that meeting, it's time to go exercise, it's time for that thing you said you were going to do that's in your calendar, wonderful, it's serving you. But if it's an external trigger that uh you get this notification while I was with my daughter, now it's not serving me.

I was serving the notification. Miral, welcome to the podcast. How are you doing? I'm doing great. It's so great to be with you.

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