WCP54 Indistractable with Nir Eyal
09/05/19 • 29 min
Author Nir Eyal joins us to talk about his new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
What’s distracting you from your writing time? As Nir breaks it down, distraction always starts from within. We’ve been avoiding uncomfortable emotions way before the modern siren call of the smartphone.
In this conversation, Nir shares lots of examples from his own writing life. Nir wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller Hooked, and trained as a journalist. Many business books are hard to apply outside a corporate environment, but Nir really understands the impact of his findings on writers.
We talk about: +The difference between a writing habit and a routine +His collaborative process with his wife Julie Li +Time management with an ever-changing freelance schedule +Using a question in your own life as a starting point for a major writing project +Why disconnecting your smartphone won’t solve your distraction problems
“Being indistractable does not only require keeping distractions out. It also necessitates reigning ourselves in.”
WIN A FREE COPY OF INDISTRACTABLE: Enter to win a copy of Indistractable via the giveaway on my Instagram account.
MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE: Indistractable Schedule maker tool Distraction guide Habits vs routines article
Get full show notes and more information here: www.rebeccalweber.com/podcast54
Author Nir Eyal joins us to talk about his new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
What’s distracting you from your writing time? As Nir breaks it down, distraction always starts from within. We’ve been avoiding uncomfortable emotions way before the modern siren call of the smartphone.
In this conversation, Nir shares lots of examples from his own writing life. Nir wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller Hooked, and trained as a journalist. Many business books are hard to apply outside a corporate environment, but Nir really understands the impact of his findings on writers.
We talk about: +The difference between a writing habit and a routine +His collaborative process with his wife Julie Li +Time management with an ever-changing freelance schedule +Using a question in your own life as a starting point for a major writing project +Why disconnecting your smartphone won’t solve your distraction problems
“Being indistractable does not only require keeping distractions out. It also necessitates reigning ourselves in.”
WIN A FREE COPY OF INDISTRACTABLE: Enter to win a copy of Indistractable via the giveaway on my Instagram account.
MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE: Indistractable Schedule maker tool Distraction guide Habits vs routines article
Get full show notes and more information here: www.rebeccalweber.com/podcast54
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