Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Easy ways to avoid getting sucked into distracting media #shorts

Name: Easy ways to avoid getting sucked into distracting media #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-01-04T14:00:30+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short YouTube video by Nir Eyal offering quick, actionable ways to avoid getting pulled into distracting media. He recommends disabling Netflix…

4 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Nir Eyal offering quick, actionable ways to avoid getting pulled into distracting media. He recommends disabling Netflix Autoplay, installing a Chrome extension to block YouTube sidebar recommendations, and points viewers to free tools on his website (nearandfar.com) so people can make one-time decisions that reduce ongoing internal self-control battles.

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There are all kinds of tools and techniques that you can use that save you from having to constantly fight distraction. So, for example, you can disable Autoplay on Netflix. Did you know that? As opposed to the video from one episode restarting the next one, there's a simple feature. You just go into settings. You hit that button. Now, you don't have to constantly fight with that episode about to start. When you're on YouTube, for example, you can install a Chrome extension that prevents those videos on the side of the page from being recommended to you. There's all kinds of free tools that you can use. Many of them are on my website, nearandfar.com most of them are absolutely free. We just have to go out there and find these tools so that we don't have to constantly fight with ourselves over distraction. We can make these decisions once, and they can last us a lifetime.