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

Work Distractions Trick Us #shorts

Name: Work Distractions Trick Us #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-06-23T19:30:05+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short YouTube monologue by Nir Eyal explaining how checking email, Slack, and other easy tasks can trick people into prioritizing urgent/easy work over…

23 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Nir Eyal explaining how checking email, Slack, and other easy tasks can trick people into prioritizing urgent/easy work over the hard, important tasks that actually move their lives and careers forward. The excerpt warns that these small distractions consume minutes or hours and displace intended deep work.

But first, let me check some email, right? Let me just scroll that Slack channel. Let me just do those other things on my to do list, you know, just to get some momentum. Just some easy tasks to check off some of those boxes, you know, just to get the ball rolling. 20, 30, 45 minutes later, maybe another day later, I still haven't done the thing I said I was going to do with my time and attention. But what we don't realize is that this type of distraction tricks us into. Into prioritizing the urgent and the easy work at the expense of the hard and important work we have to do to move our lives and careers forward.