From the course: Becoming Indistractable
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The skill of the century
- Have you noticed how distracting the world has become? Have you ever sat down at your desk with a deadline looming over your head and you knew that you were going to finish all these tasks on your to-do list, and then you sit down at your desk and somehow 30 minutes, 45 minutes, maybe an hour later you're still checking email or on that Slack channel for some reason? Have you noticed that when you're with your family for some reason you're on your device as opposed to being fully present with them? Or gone out to dinner with friends and look around the table and everyone's scrolling a Facebook feed? What's happened to us? Why have we gotten so distracted? And is technology really the source of the problem, or is there something else to blame? Over the past few years, I've researched the source of distraction. It all started when I wrote a book a few years ago called Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. And I wrote this book for two reasons. The first reason is that I wanted…
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