Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across important stories on how psychology influences our behavior. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I hope you enjoy them!

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Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable (NirAndFar) Stepping outside your comfort zone seriously improves your life.

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Planning a Vacation Is Practice for a Great Life [AUDIO] (Podcast) Get the most out of your vacation - and life - with just a little planniing.

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How Immigrants Drive Entrepreneurship and innovation (Behavioral Scientist) Economist are increasingly interested in the question of how immigrants shape the U.S. economy.

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Why managing our workday by merely using to-do lists is a terrible idea (Beyond Productivity) One of the most common misconceptions about productivity is that it's synonymous with getting more work done.

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Punctuality Is Having a Moment (The New York Times) "Fashionably late" falls out of fashion after more than two years of remote work, when, for many people, there was no good reason to be tardy.

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Every Day, We're Told to Use New Lingo. What Does That Really Accomplish?? (The New York Times) Thought leaders and activists of past eras put their emphasis on what people did and said - not on ever-finer gradations of how they might have said it.

Happy reading!

- Nir


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Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com

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It's amazing how something as simple as implementation intentions can focus your day.

Joe Caruso

Franchise Sales Expert and Franchisor Executive Advisor | Co-Producer of Franchise Chat & Franchise Connect | Empowering Brands on LinkedIn

2 年

Nir Eyal you have interesting ideas for people to read and I think on LinkedIn it works better for conversation to post one article at a time on the platform to for people to talk about. What do you think about my idea for Nir, Michael (Mike) Webster PhD?

Inge De Dreu

when THEIR success is YOUR success - helping business coaches and entrepreneurship educators provoque deep conversation & playfulness to achieve more progress. Founder @ Playground for Entrepreneurs

2 年

Great work Nir! Very inspiring, hope to be able to implement a couple of things ??

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