Show notes
Welcome to the Golden Hour Podcast, with Maya Gudka. Maya is an Executive Coach & Researcher; with a decade of experience as an Executive Coach, Maya has worked with hundreds of leaders, on their journeys. She is also researching the subject of executive development with top faculty at London Business School. In this episode, Maya is joined my Nir Eyal, best-selling author, lecturer and investor. He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology and business; appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. This episode focuses on maximising your golden time by reframing what a distraction is and helping you prioritise better. We deep dive into whether social media is truly a distractor, how we should think about distraction and time boxing. Sharing the simple idea that most people don’t know how true free time feels, Nir explains why to-do lists are probably the worst way to get things done and the benefits of time boxing, even when you want to be spontaneous! Show notes: [01:45] – About Nir Eyal [05:57] – Internal and external triggers [07:34] – Flow [14:05] – Habits vs routine [16:30] – Traction vs distraction [24:13] – Time boxing [35:38] – How to approach time boxing. [38:24] – Recurring tasks [40:29] – Nir’s typical day [time boxed] [43:51] – How to start time boxing [44:59] – Nir vs The Social Dilemma
