Episode

Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus | Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal, author of Hooked and Indistractable, discusses becoming less distractible through a four-step framework: mastering internal triggers, making time for traction via time-boxed calendars, hacking back external triggers, and preventing distraction with pacts (price, identity, and effort). He shares tactics like the 10-minute rule, surfing the urge, schedule syncing with managers, and building indistractable workplaces, and argues most "distraction" is really an emotion-regulation problem rather than technology addiction.