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Nir Eyal wants to add a little mindfulness to mindless behaviour. In a very meta way, the behavioural engineer learned how to boost his productivity through the 5 years process of writing the best-seller Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.Today, Nir Eyal explains the benefits of inserting effort and friction between us and our distractions. We discuss how to flip your distraction into action, why you should throw away your to-do list, and how to tame the beast that is your email inbox!We talk about:\n\nHow smoking cessation strategies help us to break bad habits\n\nInserting mindfulness into mindless behaviour\n\nInternal and external triggers\n\nThe antidote to impulsiveness if forethought\n\nThe 80-20 rule for your email box\n\nWhy to-do lists destroy productivity!