The Writing Coach Podcast 54: Indistractable with Nir Eyal
WCP54 Indistractable with Nir Eyal
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.
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Author Nir Eyal joins us today 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.”
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