Focus on your true needs - Deepstash
Lessons From Self Made Billionaires

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

The value of hard work and persistence

How to stay focused on long-term goals

How to learn from failures and setbacks

Lessons From Self Made Billionaires

Discover 81 similar ideas in

It takes just

10 mins to read

Focus on your true needs

Focus on your true needs

We are compelled to reach for things we supposedly need but really don't.

  • We don't need to check our email right now.
  • We don't need to see that Instagram story.

Though it's not our fault distractions exist, managing them is our responsability.

33

365 reads

MORE IDEAS ON THIS

What's your Superpower?

What's your Superpower?

To live the life we want, we not only need to do the right things, but we also need to stop doing the things that divert us from our goals.

  • We need to learn how to avoid distraction. Living the life we want not only requires doing the right things, but also necessitate...

32

357 reads

Traction & Distraction

Traction & Distraction

We can understand traction as the actions that draw us towards what we want in life.

On the other hand, distractions impede us from progressing towards our envisioned life.

32

312 reads

The Indistractable Model

The Indistractable Model

  • Master Internal Triggers.
  • Hack Back External Triggers.
  • Prevent Distraction with Pacts.
  • Make Time for Traction

These four steps are your guide to becoming indistractable....

32

429 reads

HERBERT A. SIMON

"The wealth of information means a dearth of something else... a poverty of attention."

HERBERT A. SIMON

28

433 reads

NIR EYAL

"Being indistractable means striving to do what you say you will do. Indistractable people are as honest with themselves as they are with others."

NIR EYAL

28

403 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

maxpamies

Business Administration and Management Student | Blockchain, DEFI & Web3 | Social Worker | "Fix the money & fix the world."

These ideas are a summary of the introduction of Indistractable. Soon I will publish more ideas respecting the parts of the book, from the 1st to the 7th part, in order to go deeper as it deserves.

Related collections

Other curated ideas on this topic:

What really goes on in your mind when you delay actions

We play mind games to convince ourselves that we are doing the right thing, even though we know its not the right thing.

When we don't feel like doing something that we know we must do, the mind is quick to rationalize a delay by 'giving you permission' to start a ...

5. Schedule tasks based on your energy levels

We tend to ignore our energy levels when planning our work, but it's a major player in productivity. Everyone's energy spikes at different times—we each have our own built-in body clock called a circadian rhythm.

If you know you're most productive right before lunch, for instance, don't pla...

STAY FOCUSED ON THE PRESENT

STAY FOCUSED ON THE PRESENT

• when we face tough situations or scary things, it's easy to get overwhelmed by thinking about all the challenges and dangers.

• But there's a trick to handle this. Instead of focusing on the big picture, we can pay attention to the small details right in front of us.

• Just like a

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates