Nir Eyal with Shane Mac

"The number one cause of distraction is not what is happening outside of us, but in fact what happens inside of us. The root cause of most distraction is not the external triggers, it's the internal triggers. So, I don't care what life hack or guru does your tells you to do with how to hack back your time. Fundamentally, if we don't first and foremost figure out what we are trying to escape from, what uncomfortable sensation prompts us to look for relief—to look for a psychological pacification from our devices, from television, from too much booze, too much work, too much, whatever—then that becomes a distraction. If we don't deal with that stuff and either fix it or learn methods to cope with it, we are always going to succumb to distraction."