#578 How to overcome your distraction downfall

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Hi, I'm Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast, and you are listening to another one of our Squiggly shortcuts. These are weekly episodes, which we make deliberately short so that you can fit them into your week. And today I'm gonna talk about the topic of distractions. I'm actually going to talk about an idea that was in an earlier episode, like hundreds of episodes ago, episode 253. We're over five hundred episodes now, so you might have missed it, but it was one of our Ask the Expert episodes that we did with Nia Eao, who wrote the book Indistractable. And there was a little bit of that conversation that has stuck with me. Like years on from the conversation, because I think it is really useful if you find yourself struggling with distraction. So that's what I'm gonna focus on in this shortcut today. So I'm gonna imagine if you are still listening that you are somebody who perhaps struggles with distractions, because most of us do. And what Nia's advice was.

If you are somebody who wants to become more Indestractable. First of all, you have to identify your distraction Downfall. Yeah, I've asked loads of people about what their distraction downfalls are. And you get some really, I guess, obvious answers. So people will tell me email.

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