4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity

Nir Eyal
Psychology of Stuff
6 min readDec 8, 2022

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(…and how to avoid them to keep a “productivity mindset”)

Productivity has many enemies: too many meetings, external triggers like interruptions from coworkers, and multitasking the wrong way, to name a few.

But more often than not, it’s mental traps that trip us up.

“Mental traps are habitual modes of thinking that disturb our ease, take up…

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Nir Eyal
Psychology of Stuff

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