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[579.64 --> 586.22] And before I know it, I've sat at my desk at my computer for an hour and I didn't get the work done that I needed.
[586.90 --> 594.86] Some of that comes down to prioritization and making lists and, you know, disciplines that bring you into those.
[594.98 --> 597.10] But there's always triggers.
[597.68 --> 600.24] And we've said before, be your own scientist.
[600.54 --> 600.72] Right.
[600.78 --> 601.70] So be your own scientist.
[602.02 --> 604.32] In this case, might be become aware.
[604.40 --> 605.40] We say this word a lot, too.
[605.68 --> 606.52] Awareness is key.
[606.52 --> 611.56] Be become aware of the triggers that are drawing you away from or prompting you from.
[611.78 --> 615.02] He talks about them in the book as internal or external and goes much deeper.
[615.30 --> 618.66] But, you know, the advice always is, like, be your own scientist.
[618.96 --> 624.84] So if you sit down like Mariel did in her example at your desk and you get lost for an hour, well, what's the trigger there?
[625.02 --> 629.32] And maybe, you know, for the trigger for you might be you really didn't want to do the work in the first place.
[630.18 --> 630.94] How'd you know?
[631.70 --> 632.06] Right.
[633.04 --> 634.58] That's the case for almost everybody.
[634.58 --> 635.86] So it's a universal answer.
[636.30 --> 636.46] Right.
[636.62 --> 637.88] I didn't want to do the work anyways.
[637.88 --> 638.98] Or it was too painful.
[639.06 --> 639.64] I didn't want to deal with that.
[639.74 --> 641.96] But that's where I come back to the whole thing for me.
[642.10 --> 646.06] Like the one kind of like if I read this book for one thing, it was for this.
[646.90 --> 650.96] Distractions originate from the need to escape psychological discomfort.
[651.22 --> 654.46] Like for me, that connection is so profound.
[654.84 --> 655.64] So profound.
[656.02 --> 658.80] Because that tells me that my phone isn't the problem.
[659.16 --> 659.46] Right.
[659.46 --> 672.78] That tells me it's a much deeper issue anytime I'm a scientist and I'm investigating my triggers or the different things that are happening and taking note of those things because that psychological discomfort is not stemming from my phone.
[672.78 --> 675.66] It's stemming from other things to escape from.
[675.66 --> 677.86] The key word there is escape.
[677.86 --> 678.46] Yep.
[678.46 --> 678.48] Yep.
[678.86 --> 679.18] Yeah.
[679.18 --> 683.86] So I love how he talks about and differentiates traction from distraction.
[683.86 --> 690.94] And so he identifies traction coming from the Latin trahirii word, meaning to draw or pull.
[690.94 --> 696.50] So traction refers to the actions that draws towards the life we want.
[697.04 --> 697.30] Right.
[697.34 --> 700.76] And I always think about that like, you know, tires, like having traction.
[700.96 --> 701.16] Right.
[701.24 --> 708.74] And if you think about like sort of tires that get stuck in mud, like they can't quite get the traction to move anywhere or go anywhere you want.
[709.34 --> 718.34] But that's what distraction, on the other hand, is, is where it's derived from that same root word, but drawing away of the mind.
[718.86 --> 720.16] Drawing away from the mind.
[720.16 --> 731.64] So it's taking away, like my tires are just like kicking up mud and I'm not moving or getting any traction to move towards the place I want to go.
[732.10 --> 732.58] Right.
[732.70 --> 734.78] And that's why this is so, so frustrating.
[735.56 --> 736.04] Right.
[736.60 --> 739.22] Because I can't really move the way I want to.
[739.76 --> 749.74] Well, listen, when I get in my car and I push the pedal for gas and the car doesn't move, I get frustrated because that's what's supposed to happen.
[749.74 --> 754.96] When you push the button or flip the switch or turn the knob, the thing is supposed to work.
[755.80 --> 757.20] And that's what's happening here.
[757.26 --> 760.64] The resulting action is either aligned with your broader intention.
[760.64 --> 763.26] So if you have like, what am I optimizing for?
[763.70 --> 764.74] And you're taking action.
[764.98 --> 769.82] It's either traction going towards the thing you're trying to achieve or misaligned.
[769.90 --> 772.98] And it's distraction taking you away from what you're trying to achieve.
[773.64 --> 773.78] Right.
[773.78 --> 779.88] So it just sort of makes me curious then to think about like, well, what is your goal?
[780.36 --> 783.40] And, you know, is it worth it?
[783.74 --> 784.26] Right.
[784.34 --> 792.72] To endure whatever pain sort of comes alongside or with that goal to endure it to get there.
[793.20 --> 793.72] Yeah.
[793.72 --> 794.12] Right.
[794.28 --> 794.76] Right.
[794.82 --> 801.00] And that's hard because so much I think about relative to exercise and working out and like building strength.
[801.14 --> 801.64] Right.
[801.70 --> 806.26] Because it's hard and it doesn't matter how many times you do it.
[806.32 --> 809.28] Like it's always hard in some way or another.
[809.28 --> 810.76] And you're like, this should be easy.
[810.76 --> 813.34] Like the gas pedal should make me go.
[814.28 --> 816.12] And yet it doesn't.
[816.12 --> 821.60] And so it reminds me like, oh, wait, this is part of how it goes.
[822.92 --> 829.38] Whenever I'm trying to move towards a goal, there's always obstacles or distractions.
[829.84 --> 838.04] And therefore, I have to be more deliberate and sort of aware, so to speak, so that I'm going, oh, wait, you know what's happening right now, Mariel.
[838.58 --> 839.06] Right.
[839.06 --> 846.20] You know, you actually want to get this done because when this is done, you get to do these other things that you really do enjoy.
[846.58 --> 851.84] Or this is going to allow or free up other time for you to spend elsewhere.
[852.52 --> 854.22] So let's get this gig through.
[855.64 --> 861.72] I, too, also like the framework that this operates or gives us traction or distraction.
[861.72 --> 865.44] That is kind of keying off of the name of the taintment.
[865.80 --> 871.76] Like if you don't have, so as you're listening to this thinking like it's either traction or distraction.
[872.28 --> 875.98] Now you have a mental framework to operate from when it comes to distraction.
[875.98 --> 877.34] It's like that's it.
[877.54 --> 879.60] It's either traction or distraction.
[880.52 --> 880.60] Yep.
[881.16 --> 883.22] And so I love how he puts this.
[883.28 --> 886.66] He says time management is pain management.
[887.40 --> 888.52] Isn't that so true?
[889.02 --> 889.34] Yeah.
[889.90 --> 890.12] Right.
[890.12 --> 897.04] Because if I can manage my time, I manage, you know, the discomfort that I feel.
[897.92 --> 902.50] He goes into and identifies four psychological factors relative to pain.
[902.50 --> 902.94] Right.
[902.94 --> 908.98] Because if we acknowledge that distraction is always this unhealthy escape from reality.
[909.18 --> 909.82] Right.
[909.88 --> 911.42] This escape from pain.
[911.42 --> 920.20] He says these tend to be boredom, the negativity bias, rumination, and what he references as hedonic adaptation.
[920.72 --> 925.64] Otherwise known as the tendency to quickly return to a baseline level of satisfaction.
[926.64 --> 928.66] I want to get through this so that I feel better.