Nir Eyal breaks down four steps to stay consistent: plan for internal triggers, schedule the time, reduce external triggers, and use financial penalties or pacts as backup. The method works only if you do the first three steps first.
How can people maintain consistency, knowing they will have to lean into the discomfort? Yeah. So that's what the indestructible methodology is all about. Learning to lean into the discomfort. By first and foremost having a plan in place for those internal triggers. Then strategy number two, as we mentioned, planning the time. Then hack back the external triggers, Prevent distraction with packs. That pack part, that fourth part, you say you can't do this thing. I know I have to go to bed on time, but I just can't get enough sleep. Let's do this. At the end of this week, I'm going to check in with you to see if you went to bed when you said you would. Here's the catch. If you don't go to bed on time, time, you need to pay me $50,000. Are you going to go to bed on time this week? Hell, yeah, you're going to do it. You have to first and foremost do the other three steps. If you don't learn how to deal with those internal triggers, if you don't set a schedule, if you don't hack back the external triggers, this will fail. It won't work. But as the last line of defense, making that pact is incredible. It works like a charm.
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