Moment 2 - Nir Eyal On How To Stop Procrastinating

Uh The the fundamental question which I know everybody wants to have the answer to and You know, your book is incredibly positively reviewed. I I checked everywhere and uh the reviews are, you know astounding. So I'm presuming you're the guy that has the answer. The question is And this is the fundamental question I guess you're addressing in the book is why don't we do the things that

we want to do and look, m my life is full of things that I really, really want to do, as is everybody's whether it's calling my mum or like taking the trash out or buying that thing on Amazon I know I need in the house that's causing me great inconvenience. Or exercising or however it might be. I just think imagine the entrepreneur, the family member, the boyfriend I would be If I could just bloody do these things that I want to do. Amen. So How do I do it? Yeah. So it starts from understanding

Why we don't do these things. that fundamentally the reason we procrastinate, the reason we get distracted, the reason we don't do what we s say we're going to do. The reason we don't live with personal integrity is because of an impulse control problem.

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