The Crucial Difference Between Distraction and Diversion

Understanding the distinction is the first step to managing your time

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 5, 2021

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Because I write about distraction and how to avoid it, I often get asked the question “Aren’t distractions sometimes a good thing? Don’t we all need some distraction in our lives?”

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Nir Eyal
Forge
Writer for

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