Nir Eyal

Yeah, absolutely. So the indistractable model can be used with children and adults. So the first and best thing you can do if you want to raise indistractable kids is to be an indistractable parent. That we know that children, even though you can't see it, your child is born with these invisible antennae.

Did you know that every child is born with these invisible antennae that is called the hypocrisy detection device? that children are constantly scanning to see where you as the parents screw up. So just like you can't tell your child don't smoke while you're smoking a cigarette, you can't tell your child get off Fortnite while you're checking email. It doesn't work that way.

Did you know that every child is born with these invisible antennae that is called the hypocrisy detection device? that children are constantly scanning to see where you as the parents screw up. So just like you can't tell your child don't smoke while you're smoking a cigarette, you can't tell your child get off Fortnite while you're checking email. It doesn't work that way.

Did you know that every child is born with these invisible antennae that is called the hypocrisy detection device? that children are constantly scanning to see where you as the parents screw up. So just like you can't tell your child don't smoke while you're smoking a cigarette, you can't tell your child get off Fortnite while you're checking email. It doesn't work that way.

You have to walk the walk yourself. And so the best thing you can do if you want to raise an indistractable kid is to be an indistractable parent yourself. And then we work through these four strategies that I described in the book. Number one, master internal triggers. We have to understand why kids overuse technology.

You have to walk the walk yourself. And so the best thing you can do if you want to raise an indistractable kid is to be an indistractable parent yourself. And then we work through these four strategies that I described in the book. Number one, master internal triggers. We have to understand why kids overuse technology.

You have to walk the walk yourself. And so the best thing you can do if you want to raise an indistractable kid is to be an indistractable parent yourself. And then we work through these four strategies that I described in the book. Number one, master internal triggers. We have to understand why kids overuse technology.

And this is what we blindly refuse to acknowledge is that we enter into these moral panics as we have always done throughout history. The kids are crazy. The kids are out of control. This is why they killed Socrates, right? Because he was corrupting the minds of youth. So this is nothing new, right?

And this is what we blindly refuse to acknowledge is that we enter into these moral panics as we have always done throughout history. The kids are crazy. The kids are out of control. This is why they killed Socrates, right? Because he was corrupting the minds of youth. So this is nothing new, right?

And this is what we blindly refuse to acknowledge is that we enter into these moral panics as we have always done throughout history. The kids are crazy. The kids are out of control. This is why they killed Socrates, right? Because he was corrupting the minds of youth. So this is nothing new, right?

Whenever there's a new idea, a new technology, a new way of doing things, well, it must be corrupting the minds of the youth. This is what we always say. As opposed to, wait a minute, what exactly is going on with the kids? What are they looking to escape? And so what I talk about in Indistractable is called the needs displacement hypothesis.

Whenever there's a new idea, a new technology, a new way of doing things, well, it must be corrupting the minds of the youth. This is what we always say. As opposed to, wait a minute, what exactly is going on with the kids? What are they looking to escape? And so what I talk about in Indistractable is called the needs displacement hypothesis.

Whenever there's a new idea, a new technology, a new way of doing things, well, it must be corrupting the minds of the youth. This is what we always say. As opposed to, wait a minute, what exactly is going on with the kids? What are they looking to escape? And so what I talk about in Indistractable is called the needs displacement hypothesis.

And this has been around for a long time, almost around the time I was born, this hypothesis that came out of the work of Desi and Ryan. I'm not sure you might've had them on your show, the founders of self-determination theory. who basically said that when you are not getting what you need in one area of your life, you look for it in other areas.

And this has been around for a long time, almost around the time I was born, this hypothesis that came out of the work of Desi and Ryan. I'm not sure you might've had them on your show, the founders of self-determination theory. who basically said that when you are not getting what you need in one area of your life, you look for it in other areas.

And this has been around for a long time, almost around the time I was born, this hypothesis that came out of the work of Desi and Ryan. I'm not sure you might've had them on your show, the founders of self-determination theory. who basically said that when you are not getting what you need in one area of your life, you look for it in other areas.

So the modern day application is that when you ask yourself, what are the psychological nutrients that we know every human being on the face of the earth needs, according to self-determination theory, the most widely accepted theory of human flourishing and motivation, we need competency, we need autonomy, and we need relatedness. Every human being needs these three things, especially children.

So the modern day application is that when you ask yourself, what are the psychological nutrients that we know every human being on the face of the earth needs, according to self-determination theory, the most widely accepted theory of human flourishing and motivation, we need competency, we need autonomy, and we need relatedness. Every human being needs these three things, especially children.

So the modern day application is that when you ask yourself, what are the psychological nutrients that we know every human being on the face of the earth needs, according to self-determination theory, the most widely accepted theory of human flourishing and motivation, we need competency, we need autonomy, and we need relatedness. Every human being needs these three things, especially children.

But we are starving our children of these three psychological nutrients. They don't feel competent in school because we test them all day, every day to just barf out the same information that they were taught the day before, whether they care or not. Many kids fall through the cracks because of this No Child Left Behind Act that mandates testing, testing constantly, so they don't feel competent.