3 Steps to Master Your Emotions and Be Your Best Self

Nir Eyal
Psychology of Stuff
5 min readJan 16, 2024

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Your emotions are the core of everything. Mastering them allows you to be your best self.

You won’t evolve if you ignore your emotions. I discovered the power of managing emotions when I set out to find a cure for my chronic distraction. I was struggling to the point that it was affecting my relationship with my daughter: whenever we spent quality time together, I found myself fiddling with my phone, my mind elsewhere.

Through years of research — which turned into my book Indistractable — I learned how to master my emotions as a first step to fighting distraction. But that new skill brought even more benefits I didn’t anticipate.

I gained control of my attention, learned about myself and the pattern of my emotional reactions to certain tasks, events, or stimuli, and used that information to better myself, my work, and my relationships.

Emotions are the best clues we have to understanding our values and thus ourselves. Research shows that by discerning our emotions and managing them, especially the negative ones, we can improve our psychological health, achieve career success, communicate clearly, and have stronger relationships.

Let me show you how to use Indistractable methods to track and hack your emotions and lead a happy, successful life.

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Nir Eyal
Psychology of Stuff

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