The Ledger, every show

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.

shows every show 44 of 44
every show
clear all ✕
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Contradicted
Eyal: Research shows 90% of distraction is triggered internally, not externally
“We have external triggers. These are things in our outside environment, the usual suspects, the pings, the dings, the rings, all this stuff in our outside environment, which we tend to blame for distraction. But studies find that's only 10% of the reason we ge…”
Nir Eyal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 11:23 Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus | Nir Eyal
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Eyal: LGBTQ suicide dropped partly due to online community connection
“What they haven't talked about is, for example, that LGBTQ suicide has dropped, largely because one of the reasons, not the only reason, but one of the reasons is that people from disparate groups, if you lived in that small town and nobody was like you becaus…”
Nir Eyal Feb 16, 2021 ▶ 7:11 #104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Didn’t hold up
Eyal: Facebook will not block feed-eradicating browser extensions
“I think the blowback would be so severe if they tried to do something about it that I can't see that on their radar.”
Nir Eyal Feb 16, 2021 ▶ 53:30 #104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
BIGDEAL Assertion Contradicted
Eyal: Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated false memories can be successfully implanted
“Elizabeth Loftus has these amazing studies where she implants memories of people going on a hot air balloon ride that never happened, and they'll describe the wind in their hair and the color of the balloon completely made up.”
Nir Eyal Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 33:31 How To Stay Focused, Beat Distraction, and Get Things Done | Nir Eyal
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Contradicted
Eyal: Studies show tasks take three times longer than people estimate
“On average studies have found that tasks take people three times longer to finish than they estimate.”
Nir Eyal Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 33:04 Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus | Nir Eyal
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.