#215 Learn about habits from Stanford professor and award-winning author | Nir Eyal | Manuj Aggarwal | Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show - a podcast by Manuj Aggarwal

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How will you like to listen to a Stanford professor and award-winning author face to face LIVE on our podcast?


Are you interested to learn how to be indistractable and grow your business in this socially distant economy? Join us and learn from the Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, Sought after Speaker, and Investor, Nir Eyal!


Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.


Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.


Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, "The best business book of 2019."


In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.


Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Kahoot! (KAHOOT-ME.OL), Canva, Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Product Hunt, Marco Polo, Presence Learning, 7 Cups, Pana, Byte Foods, FocusMate, and Shadow.



Here Nir talks about:


  • (2.01) Nir talks about his latest book “ Indistractable”
  • (5.55) Nir talks about how he does the research for books 
  • (10.15) Preview of the book “ Indistractable”
  • (17.28) Results of the techniques used to prevent distraction
  • (22.30) The level of productivity and distractions during the pandemic
  • (26.52) Building habit-forming products and healthy habits
  • (28.51) Changes in the industries due to the pandemic
  • (31.44) Effects of distractions on relationships and techniques to improve them
  • (35.22) How to connect with Nir
  • (35.27) How to access the Free 80 page workbook to control distractions on his website


Find Nir on- 

Website - https://www.nirandfar.com/

Purchase Indistractable from his website - https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/



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