Heidi Cohen Interviews Nir Eyal
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Heidi Cohen: What inspired you to dive into this topic of “lack of focus”?
I was surprised that you reference research on lack of attention dating back to the early 1970s, pre-dating PCs by a decade.
Nir Eyal: To be honest, I was trying to solve my own problem. I noticed it most powerfully when I was with my daughter. She asked me to do something, and I told to hold on a second because I had to check something on my phone.
It hit me that I was allowing myself to become distracted by some insignificant email—and that it was pulling me away from one of my most significant relationships. That’s when I set out on a quest to figure out how to defeat distraction once and for all.
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