How To Be Less Distracted at Work – and in Life | HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review · Oct 14, 2026 · 32m

How To Be Less Distracted at Work – and in Life | HBR IdeaCastUploaded 22-03-2322 Mar 2023---Nir Eyal, an expert on technology and psychology, says that we all need to learn to be less distracted into activities that don’t help us achieve what we want to each day. Unwelcome behaviors can range from social media scrolling and bingeing on YouTube videos to chatting with colleagues or answering non-urgent emails. To break these habits, we start by recognizing that it is often our own emotions, not our devices, that distract us. We must then recognize the difference between traction…