No.1 Habit Expert explains how to stop being distracted

I interviewed Nir Eyal, who is a best selling author and productivity expert on how to take control of your life, stay productive, and break the habit of infinite scrolling. Hope you find this valuable and if you do consider checking out another video on my channel :)
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Outline:
0:00 Who is Nir Eyal? Stanford productivity expert
1:10 How I use notion (sponsored segment)
2:10 Nir Eyal quick book summary (Hooked & Indistractable)
3:49 How does someone become indistractable? (4 steps)
8:48 How do you actually stop infinite scrolling?
13:00 Why do people procrastinate and get distracted?
16:19 Nir gives me advice for KZbin procrastination
21:40 How to motivate yourself even when you don't feel like it
26:38 Nir gives me specific advice for deep work & writing
30:47 How manage your time and take control of your life
38:41 Listen to this if you want to achieve more in life

[@reysu]

Thanks for watching!! Apologies for the delay in between videos, back to regular uploads now! lessgettitt🤝 Sponsored links: 🎯 If you can think it, you can make it happen with Notion. Try for free at ntn.so/Reysu7 🎉 Unlock AI for $10 per month: ntn.so/reysupodcast

[@zeev]

I liked this, this was a very refreshing departure from the trees, for a forest, about the mind's attention to attention. all the attention hacks are worthless if you don't learn the skill of attentiveness.

[@danylobielokon8347]

I started reading the book "Indistractable" yesterday and already today you have this wonderful interview coming out. It was very helpful, thanks for your work guys! I made a huge note after watching this video.

[@reysu]

wow! that's great, how do you like the book so far?

[@danylobielokon8347]

@@reysu Yes, so far the book is very promising, I like it. Also on this topic I liked the book "Stolen Focus", where the author comes at it from a slightly different angle, interviewing scientists, referring to various studies and telling his story. So for those who have problems with addiction to social media, as I do, I would recommend both books

[@godwinbrian808]

Very good content man, Keep up the good work.

[@reysu]

thank you 🤝

[@BruceXuHasADream]

Quality video, really enjoyed his tips. May everyone learn these, and we all make a better world/future! So awesome

[@SAJALSuddique]

This video have life changing results for me, thank you for the informative video 😊

[@reysu]

thanks for watching :))

[@FlorianFerrereS]

Happy to see you back! 👌🏼

[@reysu]

Hey, thanks!

[@user-ct8zg4nb3g]

​@@reysuA curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own modern smart phones???

[@joao_galdino]

Thanks!! 🇧🇷

[@aridoneyet]

It would be cool to get a Notion walkthrough and how you use it vs. your analog life tracker OS 🙂

[@realaltr]

+1

[@reysu]

okk!!

[@AndrewOffice]

Dammmmmmmn ill be back in days to just summaryze everything here because these guy just changed my mind

[@reysu]

Where’s the summary at my man

[@knw-seeker6836]

This episode is really interesting

[@reysu]

thanks for listening!

[@dvdv8197]

Yooooo the life tracker system book says "50% off" on website, but then when you try to purchase it says the full price?? 😣😪

[@reysu]

the sale is over today :(

[@dvdv8197]

@@reysu it was before the deadline lol. 🙂 Too bad.

[@studywithjames]

The man himself is back

[@reysu]

let's goo

[@dvdv8197]

@reysu I'll paste the question/comment here as well, hoping you'll see it either here or there then. 🙂 "I'm considering to pay for the 'workbook', could you perhaps elaborate a little on what I would be getting exactly? It's printable template papers and such? ☺️" Bump 🙂

[@reysu]

Hey thanks for the comment! It's a e-book where I've gone more in depth explaining how to set up the life tracker system. So there are detailed explanations of how to use it to set goals, how to customize your own, some of the things I've learned from journalling, how to make journalling consistent, and more. I've also included scans from some of my journals. It includes a printable template right now and I'm working on adding more templates + resources to it. They would be provided for free to everyone that already purchased, even if the price increases in the future. Some of the things I'm working on adding in the future are like a Notion template version of the Life Tracker System, more templates, and further chapters based on questions I've gotten. Goal is to make the single purchase the most valuable system for journalling and to continue to provide resources for it over time

[@dvdv8197]

@@reysu appreciate the extra explanation. 🙂👍

[@rojaskendall]

2:20 start

[@reysu]

there's timestamps already

[@MkwesiW901]

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[@user-ct8zg4nb3g]

A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own modern smart phones????!

[@reysu]

my grandpa is 85 and he uses an iPhone

[@reysu]

also my grandma

[@soyrobertoaugusto]

banger

[@reysu]

Thank you!

[@IskandarStrategist1689]

I'm board game heavy expect

[@reysu]

what does that mean

[@YagwareteYuba-oz6rd]

Great interview, but the very annoying loud music in the end kept me from understanding what he was saying

[@reysu]

Sorry

[@AndrewOffice]

Someone summarysing the video????

[@eieigo]

I was scrolling this comment section for that🤣

[@JustKyzuuh]

I definitely strongly disagree with this guy's take on the addiction of scrolling. You are paying with much more than time. Short form videos ruin your attention span and make your dopamine threshold higher to where normal things seem boring. I understand his viewpoint of focusing on what is within your own power when looking for a solution for the distraction, but I do think it's a little disingenuous.

[@reysu]

I think the idea with his approach is that you schedule out the things that you don't want to spend time doing, and having them on a calendar helps you see just how much time you are spending on it. I don't really watch short form video but the approach has been working on me for other things!

[@stevensmusicblog]

I 1000% agree. I have never met someone who thinks that scrolling on their phone is time well spent (or even something they intentionally wanted to do) -- and yet we do it because multi-billion dollar companies engineer their platforms to prey upon our psychological vulnerabilities. In one breath, Eyal admits this, and in another, he downplays it by saying that "society isn't trying to addict you." We see this with sugar consumption/addiction in the US. It's not our fault that our phones are designed to make money off of our attention, just as it is not our fault that two-thirds of packaged food in American supermarkets contain added sugar. But in typical neoliberal fashion, Eyal refuses to recognize this as a systemic issue, and puts blame on individuals and their feelings, perhaps in part because he profits off these attention manipulation strategies as he sells them to companies like Duolingo, but also because it's easier to blame individuals for being lazy and directionless than it is to hold Silicon Valley accountable. I love this channel and appreciate the interview, but it's difficult to take Eyal's advice seriously when he can't seem to acknowledge that there are real, nuanced differences in the way that something like Netflix and Instagram Reels are both created and consumed.

[@MarkPinchuk]

Yup. Same here. It's definitely not as bad as smoking of something similar, but it isn't nothing. I disagree with that. I do however agree with his approach to it. Not blaming the app and taking accountability. We have to get to the root cause and work our way out starting there.

[@Jada_RE]

I left when he equated the addiction of infinite scrolling to watching golf. Dude, BYE! The difference between the two is that one literally rewires neuron pathways to be hooked to the cheap dopamine ie. harm to the brain itself, while the other does NOT NEARLY cause the same kind of addiction BECAUSE IT'S NOT DESIGNED TO! This guy is absolutely disingenuous and wants to fit all 'distractions' into the same bucket, like they all carry the same weight. Quack!