Hi Nir, Love your podcast and the Hooked framework. Can you share some insights on how to retain and engage with customers on a product that doesn’t have high frequency of use. It’s regarding a productivity app which the users would use when they have a need (which can be not too often).

He is 100% confidently wrong about ADHD and the benefit of treatment and medication as effective in helping to live a productive and effective life, and spreading misinformation about a disorder that he does not have, has never had in his life or had his livelihood affected by or been affected by it his whole life. If you do not have ADHD, this is one area where you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and how much it can affect your quality of life. It’s a very real and very painful disorder especially if you have been suffering and struggling all your life, decades on decades and never knew your quality of life was suffering because you had undiagnosed ADHD. This is not a disorder where you can sit on the sidelines and give your opinion and solutions on it as facts. It’s not about will power, focus or self-discipline, it’s not about if you do these steps your brain and behaviors will work just like mine, it is not about just needing to implement the right skills, motivation or being lazy or you are just a procrastinator, or you don’t really need ADHD medication or everybody has a little ADHD, wrong. If you don’t truly have ADHD, your opinion on it is just that, an opinion and everyone has one about something. He is 100% dangerous and needs to be addressed by the scientific community and experts that are actually knowledgeable about ADHD and the quality of life of people affected by ADHD and the benefit of treatment and medication. He is putting his negative biases out in the world as facts to the detriment of a community that already encounters it daily by neurotypicals that have no personal experience about what they are confidently talking about and dismissing. It would be like a male telling a woman giving birth that her labor pain can be ease sufficiently with a Bayer aspirin instead of an epidural and oh come on, it can’t really be that many women in the population that experience labor pains during birth or really that bad, just follow these steps and skills, that is exactly how you sound!! Your words are not truth nor facts. You are confidently talking about something you have not experienced or lived. To know ADHD and what is effective and not have ADHD and speak on it, would take a Saul to Paul Conversion to actually know what you are talking about, if you don’t have ADHD. The problem is NOT that ADHD is being overly diagnosed, the problem is that it is being misdiagnosed or biasedly dismissed and it is showing up as anxiety and depression and the root cause is actually undiagnosed ADHD and Executive Dysfunction. For people with ADHD, it effects every aspect of your life, it’s a daily uphill battle especially if you are undiagnosed. It makes Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as tall and as challenging as climbing Mount Everest and it’s an everyday challenge, and treatment can be very effective in successfully helping you to reach the heights of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and get on with living a productive, effective life and to stop spinning your wheels, day after day and year after year trying to overcome the daily struggles of ADHD and how your brain works. Life can truly be worth living and productive with yes, treatment and medication for those with ADHD! #Ask me how I know!

Nir and Nick, N=2😉, concisely break down weekly action steps for making real changes to your life goals. Whether it’s body, mind, or career, all are encompassed with these small time investments. Take a listen, then more importantly, take five minutes to put something into action. Good stuff!

Nir and team do a great job talking about life and how to help arrange everything without judgement on your personal priorities. The book indistractable is a powerful book as well!! Check them out!!

The content is top notch, but the narration is awful. Get a new narrator and it’d be five stars.

Your latest episode (October 2022) was probably the best. I liked that you spoke about your topic freely. Remove the actual reading of your articles. I’d suggest talking about the article and referring to it and post the link, as you do, in the notes. It’s hard to listen to just someone reading your articles.

I’m a big fan of Nir and his work. But his podcast won’t get listened to completion. The format is this: Nir writes an essay, then has a voice over actor with a folksy Burl Ives type of voice to read the essay. And the effect is inauthentic and grating. Read it yourself, Nir, and save on the voiceover fees!

Why the horrible narration? Can’t listed to 10 seconds.

I really don’t like listening to a reader doing this podcast. It’s not that long and I’d really rather hear the creator. I can’t imagine this really saves that much time. I’ll probably just read the blog (I like the content very much). For the record - the reader is professional and does a fine job.

Nir, I really love your content. I love your essays. But, I really want to hear you read them. You have a great voice. I heard you another podcast. I find the narrator really distracting. And for me, he takes away from your authenticity in the message.

The vocal fry of the current voice makes it hard to listen to the articles

Has the latest & most elegant explanations of human behaviors, habits & persuasion. I always listen carefully & study his approach when I want to learn, support change or persuade.

Intriguing ideas. I look forward to listening to more. I am particularly interested in managing energy levels!

I really love Nir Eyal’s book, blog, twitter and his podcast’s *content* is no exception. The content is fantastic, I’d would like the podcast a lot better if it felt more like a podcast and wasn’t simply him just reading a blog post. Additionally, the introduction is usually more than 10% of the time of the podcast, and the outro accounts for another 5% of the time, which feels too long for a podcast of this length.

As a marketer, l’m looking for better ways to connect with my audience. The information offered definitely has helped to create more resonant messaging. Looking forward to continued insights on future episodes.

Well made and to the point podcasts. Very insightful and thought provoking. I loved Hooked and I'm happy I found this podcast to continue learning even more.

Nir, just an incredible show! Really stoked that ths podcast is in the iTunes world! I have a question for you based on the dynamic interview with Adam Alter. When we look at building a successful external framework for sustainable behavior change to personally transcend the frenetic, incessant, and intoxicating pull from the smart phone, have you in your research found a best practice or applicaiton to help partition the user's attention?

Worth checking out. Eyal's book _Hooked_ and his Habit Summit conference helped my cofounder and me coalesce on some key ideas. Eyal isn't sitting on his laurels, either. Here's a suggestion for the podcast: impact of the Kahneman - Gigerenzer debate on ethics of habits. If we see automatic cognition as rational (G.) vs irrational (K.) would we see a higher purpose in our products?

So she climbed Mt. Everest! Wow! Love her leadership insights. So honest and from a very unique perspective and experience. Great interview...I'll tune in again!

Love the insights and knowledge Nir shares.

Exactly, what I wanted from this podcast, short form and insightful!!

Hi, Nir - saw your email that said I could ask you anything... we have a very cool cognitive alertness detection app that we are selling B2B - alertmeter in the app store - It can detect if someone is struggling with alertness in the moment for whatever reason - fatigue, illness, drug use, emotional distraction - which companies use in safety-sensitive job roles. It takes 90 seconds to complete. This is not like brain games; it's a psychomotor vigilance test developed decades ago that is finally coming into its own with touchscreen technology. After 10 times, you develop a baseline and your current score provides you with a percentage of where you are in relation to your own personal average. If you are too far out of range, it notifies your supervisor so they can check in with you and see if you're too distracted to be assigned to your regular equipment, or if you need to take a break, etc. In my sales process, I invite stakeholders to download the app and give them an ID to start their own account to get a baseline established so they can see how it works, and then we continue the discussion. That's when the problem begins. Very few people will keep taking the test to even develop a baseline. It takes 10 times to develop a baseline - that's the bare minimum of what we need to get an average cognitive alertness reading. They are fascinated by it at first, but won't stick with it. (The app has a demo version so you can take the test as often as you like without a User ID, but it never develops a personal baseline.) I even have to set myself a reminder to take this most days. It isn't difficult, but something is missing. I guess. We have companies where everyone takes it when they clock in and it becomes a regular part of their schedule. These are places where the owner is compelled - perhaps they recently had to fire a good employee for turning up positive on a urine drug test even though they all knew the person wasn't impaired in the moment. But in the typical sales process, I am having trouble getting the decision-makers to stick with it. Any thoughts? Thank you!

I've been following Nir's work for about a year, so I was thrilled to hear his new podcast.Nir shares information that puts you "in the know" about how your habits are formed. What's great about this podcast is that you can go back and read Nir's blog posts as another way to learn. Nir, what strategies do you use to get yourself out the door and run? Also, why did you stop being a Vegetarian?

I've learned more from Nir than I have in my psychology & marketing classes

I follow Nir's work since he started his blog and I always get new and good ideas how to make users of my product stickier and happier. Here's delightful features of my Apple Watch (Episode #1): - unlock my laptop (this was so strong that I started using it regularly just for this feature) - night-stand watch mode (I just tap on the bed and the clock turns on - magic)

I have been following Nir Eyal's writings ever since reading his book (Hooked - How to Build Habit Forming Products). I have always found him extremely insightful, and highly recommend listening to and learning from this podcast about how to change behaviors and build habits.

Nir knows how to map hard data about human behavior and map it directly to product designs that will sell. Great insights anyone in product development can learn from!

Interesting topics, looking forward for more

Nir Eyal hosts a smart, insightful and thoughtful podcast on behavior and the brain. Listen and learn!