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How to Finally Find the Motivation You’ve Been Missing
Photo by luca pizzarotti on UnsplashNir’s Note: This guest post was written by Cheryl MaguireThe laundry hamper was overflowing with dirty clothes. Lacking the motivation to throw it into the wash, I pushed the clothes down deeper into the bin so I could fit more...
Ashley Stahl: Former National Security Expert Helps Us Get Unstuck
Ashley Stahl is a counter-terrorism professional turned career coach, speaker, and, most recently, author of You Turn, a book about getting unstuck, discovering your career direction, and designing your dream job. Through her two viral TEDx talks speeches (here and...
David Burkus: The One Thing Remote Leaders Need to Know
David Burkus is a speaker, business thought-leader, professor, and best-selling author. His TedX talk, "Why You Should Know How Much your Coworkers Get Paid" has been viewed over 2 million times. He teaches courses on organizational behavior, creativity and...
Hindsight Bias: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices
Nir's Note: Discover other reasons you make terrible life choices like confirmation bias, distinction bias, extrinsic motivation, fundamental attribution error, hyperbolic discounting, and peak end rule.By: Erik Johnson and Nir Eyal In 2000, a 69-year-old man began...
How to Turn Off Harmful Stress Like a Switch
By Nir Eyal and Todd SnyderLet’s play a game of “would you rather.” Would you rather speak in front of 500 people for an hour or be stuck in an elevator with your ex? Would you rather get a cavity drilled or be forced to take a four-hour Zumba class? Would you rather...
Here’s My Review of The Social Dilemma: No, Social Media Is Not “Hijacking” Your Brain
Over the past few weeks, people have asked me for my review of the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. It’s no surprise. One of the film’s central themes is that social media is like an addictive drug, and I wrote the book on habit-forming technologies: Hooked:...
This is How the Media is Misleading You on “Technology Addiction”
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Siri Helle, a clinical psychologist living in Sweden.Which of the following is true? Screen time is the leading cause of anxiety and depression amongst teenagers Studies have found that screen time shrinks people’s attention span to...
Be a Schedule Builder, Not a To-Do List Maker
Imagine you bought a new phone, but at the end of each day, every day, the operating system crashed. Would you keep using the faulty phone? Of course not. You’d take it back to the store, complain, and get a new one. And yet, many people run their entire lives on a...
Handling Life Transitions: Interview with Bruce Feiler
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down for a Q&A with Bruce Feiler, a Ted Talk veteran and seven-time bestselling author, who most recently wrote Life is in the Transitions, a guidebook for navigating the times when our lives pivot dramatically. You can find...
Indistractable Schedule Maker Tool
Nir's Note: Use this free schedule maker to create your own timeboxed schedule or scroll down to read the article. Save your schedule and bookmark this page to update the schedule builder anytime.Nir's Note: Use this free schedule maker (via desktop view) to create...