Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2023-12-29
Lenny Rachitsky & Nir Eyal: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)
Nir Eyal is the author of two best-selling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. He writes, consults, and teaches at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed Indistractable by Nir Eyal and Hooked by Nir Eyal. Nir Eyal recommended Alchemy by Rory Sutherland, and discussed Mindset by Carol S. Dweck and The Experience Machine by Andy Clark.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Indistractable
Discussed“and this is based on a book that you wrote called indistractable which is all about helping people become less distracted become better at focus”
Where to get it
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Mindset
Discussed“and that exception was in a study done by Carol dck uh she's one of my research Heroes she wrote the book mindset you're probably familiar with and she did a fascinating study”
Where to get it
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Hooked
Discussed“okay for our last topic I wanted to spend some time on hooked which I think could be its own podcast that could be a whole other episode of your first book that did really well and essentially this book hooked is about teaching people how to get people hooked on their product”
Where to get it
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Alchemy
Recommended“what are two or three books you've recommended most to other people there's this book called Alchemy by Rory Sutherland that I love it's a fantastic book uh it delves into the psychology of various experiences so highly recommend that”
Where to get it
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The Experience Machine
Discussed“and I'm reading a book right now actually it's on myself right here called The Experience Machine by Andy Clark which I'm really enjoying”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Hooked
“near is the author of two best-selling books hooked how to build habit forming products and indistractable how to control your attention and choose your life”
Passing Indistractable
“near is the author of two best-selling books hooked how to build habit forming products and indistractable how to control your attention and choose your life”
Plugged Indistractable
“maybe my book isn't the book for you right I'm talking to the people who for whatever reason you know you're capable of more”
Plugged Indistractable
“so I think the same thing is going to happen when it comes to becoming indistractable frankly with or without my book my book was intended to accelerate this process”
Plugged Indistractable
“and so there's all kinds of tools listed in my book from forest and focus made all kinds of tools that can help us put technology in its place ironically enough with new and better technology”
Plugged Indistractable
“you don't have to do everything in the book I'm giving you a many of different options but one small thing in each of those categories is huge”
Plugged Hooked
“so my website is nearandfar.com that's about like my first name n andf far.com and my two books hooked how to build habit fing products and indistractable how to control your attention and choose your life and they're available wherever books are sold”
Plugged Indistractable
“so my website is nearandfar.com that's about like my first name n andf far.com and my two books hooked how to build habit fing products and indistractable how to control your attention and choose your life and they're available wherever books are sold”