There are companies with the kind of culture where people can raise their hand and say this isn’t working for me right now and can we talk about this so we can fix it? Those companies don’t have a problem with distraction. If you have the problem of distraction in your workplace, and you can’t talk about the problem if you find yourself constantly distracted and you can’t talk about the problem, then that’s the problem. What I discovered in my research is that distraction at work is a symptom of cultural dysfunction. How do you make the workplace indistractable?
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So we have to be very careful about these self-limiting beliefs.Įyal is the author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, an expert in behavioral design and has taught at Stanford University. When you believe that you are spent, it becomes true. It’s called learned helplessness when you believe there’s nothing you can do about the problem. And this is incredibly important because what we see today happening is that people blame things outside of themselves for addicting them. Another study has proven that it’s only if you believe that you have run out of willpower, that it becomes true. Well, it turns out that the entire concept of limited willpower and ego depletion seems to be in question.
I’m going to sit on the couch and watch Netflix because I’m spent. So at the end of the day, I would go home from work and say I have no willpower left. There are many studies that showed that willpower is limited. In your book, you debunk a popular theory that our willpower is a limited resource and once exhausted, you tend to lose control and slip into distractions?
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