How to Control Your Attention and Become Indistractable with Nir Eyal

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Generation You’s purpose is to have multidisciplinary conversations around the big challenges of tomorrow. From education, health, food, climate, technology and many others - we strive to empower people to tackle these challenges and advance mankind. Your host, Catalin Matei, is an entrepreneur that's working on ever-more complex problems.

Today's guest, Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and now author Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, which was released a couple of months ago and can be acquired online and in-stores. He sold two technology companies since 2003 and now help teams design more engaging products. He has taught the "Using Neuroscience to Influence Human Behavior" course as a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has been featured/contributed to TechCrunch, Business Insider, and Psychology Today.

Here you can see timestamps and topics that were discussed:

14:21 - What is the solution to procrastination

20:36 - What succesfull people do to mantain their focus

31:05 - Why feeling guilty is actually good

33:38 - The best thing you can do when facing problems

35:22 - How to get in the state of doing things that you hate

Link to the book:https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/

Link to the workbook: https://www.nirandfar.com/subscribe-behavior-change/

You can find Nir Eyal on:

Website: https://www.nirandfar.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nirandfar/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neyal99/?hl=ro

You can find Catalin on:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catalinmatei1/?hl=ro  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4fhe-lH_XfsWcn-ry7ZnA/videos

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Email: catalin@increasemedia.com