159: How to Distract-Proof Your Brain—Nir Eyal

Doors to our premium platform are now open. Join hundreds of Catholics around the world. Come for the content and stay for the community: www.coffinnation.com ************************************************************** Do you find yourself distracted all day by the pings and dings of your smartphone, by the lure of that Amazon Prime movie, or hilarious kitten videos on YouTube, or your favorite news commentary, or the funny pages, or making a hot coffee before you “really get down to work”? Stop me if this sounds like you, because it certainly sounds like me. Fortunately for the distracted brethren of this world, a practical guide to distract-proofing your brain is now available. New York best-selling author Nir Eyal has put 5 years of research into one place.  It's called Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Nir does not spout platitudes or make generalizations. He provides practical tools that build the kind of habits that enable you to stay on task and to use your time wisely and deliberately. Lots of objective data to back it all up as well.   Read the rest of the show notes at: www.patrickcoffin.media/show