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What to do when you get distracted 🧑‍💻

2024-01-10 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:55 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali describes what the blogger Nate Soares calls failing with abandon, giving up a whole day or goal after one slip, and says the fix is to give yourself permission to be distracted and treat a distraction as a temporary veering off track.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Failing with abandon, and getting back on course after a distraction

  • ★★ Ali relays the blogger Nate Soares's term failing with abandon: after one slip, such as five minutes on social media, a missed workout or a skipped language-app day, we give up the whole day or goal. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali calls failing with abandon a common reason we waste vast amounts of energy, and says the key is getting back on course. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Since distraction cannot be completely eradicated, Ali advises giving yourself permission to be distracted and treating a distraction as a temporary veering off track rather than a sign to abandon your plans. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you improve your focus? — Since distraction cannot be completely eradicated, Ali advises giving yourself permission to be distracted and treating a distraction as a temporary veering off track rather than a sign to abandon your plans. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Central: failing with abandon

Also: Nate Soares

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

Also centred on failing with abandon: i wasted the last 6 months of my life…

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