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Nir Eyal

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Nir Eyal

@nireyal

NYT bestselling author of Beyond Belief, Indistractable, Hooked | Former Stanford Lecturer helping you make sense of the science of behavior 🧠

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Joined March 2008

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Nir Eyal
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Yup, you're looking inside my head. Prenuvo offered me a free MRI in exchange for sharing my honest experience. I went in skeptical. Whole-body scans can uncover things that look scary but turn out to be harmless. And for healthy people, we still don’t have evidence that
Nir Eyal
@nireyal
Aug 5
A father and daughter reflect on how to find fulfillment at every life stage
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What “Enough” Feels Like, at 18 and 48
Nir’s Note: “Happiness equals reality minus expectations.” According to this saying, there are only two paths to contentment. The most common is to change reality to suit our desires. Pursue more....
Nir Eyal
@nireyal
Aug 3
Saying no is a skill most of us never learned. We say yes because it's easier in the moment. Yes to the meeting. Yes to the favor. Yes to the coffee chat we don't have time for. Then we resent the yes, and resent ourselves for giving it. Here's what I've come to believe after
Nir Eyal
@nireyal
Aug 2
Prenuvo gave me a free full-body MRI in exchange for an honest post. I almost said no. The critics have a point. Scan a healthy person and the machine finds something in most of them, and there's no randomized trial showing whole-body MRI helps healthy people live longer the way
Nir Eyal
@nireyal
Aug 1
5 things about confidence I wish I'd known sooner: 1. Confidence isn't a trait. It's a belief you hold about yourself — and beliefs are tools, not truths. You can pick them up, test them, and put them down. 2. Waiting to feel confident before you act gets it backwards. The