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And for Goff, a big key to living an undistracted life is being willing to live out of a less safe self. Our digital lives invite intense scrutiny, so we spend enormous amounts of energy retreating into sanitized public identities that might not be completely real, but at least they’re safe. Goff believes we can be more concerned about avoiding accusations from strangers than we are in living fully in the moment. What’s that connected to?” Embracing the Misunderstanding “There’s the person that your loved ones know, and then there’s the person that strangers know. “We can have these two personas going on,” he says. We’re more concerned with cultivating an acceptable identity than we are with focusing on who we were created to be. He says the pressure of living our lives in public, as the social media age requires of us, can lead to us being distracted at an internal level. “If I’m always ‘Bob the Balloon Guy’ - because that’s what everybody’s expecting - then they don’t get to know that I can be a deeply introspective person, too,” he says. He uses himself as an example, referring to his well-known affinity for public whimsy and, well, balloons (if you know, you know ). I don’t want to feel rejection, so what I’d rather do is fake it.’ Then we become caricatures.” “Everybody’s in everybody’s grill about stuff that you could be distracted by coming up with a worldview to protect you from it,” Goff says.

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Obviously, there are the distractions of everyday life - Tiktok, television, tabloids, the little things that eat away at our free time - but there are broader issues at play as well. Goff says distraction comes in many forms which, perhaps, is why it’s so insidious. “But I think you could be enthusiastic about what’s going on around you and at the same time understand what’s going on inside of you.” “I just said, ‘I’m done with being distracted,'” Bob Goff explains. That is just Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,” he says. He thinks that’s something we could all benefit from. His goal now is to retain his enthusiasm for what’s next while getting better at mastering his attention span. That makes him prone to distraction, obviously, but it also gives him a zeal for accomplishment. He’s an Enneagram Seven - an “Enthusiast,” inclined to forever chase new horizons and abandon what’s now for what’s next (“I make coffee nervous,” he chuckles). “I just said, ‘I’m done with being distracted.’”Įasier said than done, but Goff has proved himself endlessly capable of overcoming the odds.

“I have spent all my life being distracted,” he says, eyes sparking from beneath the brim of his ball cap.

But until that time, he’s focused intently on the here and now of our conversation. As soon as we’re finished talking, he’s heading out to a horse ranch for a few days to unwind. He’s got a lot going on.īut when we talk via a Zoom call, he’s very calm. He is the most interesting man in the world. He’s answering every phone call he gets, a commitment he’s had since he dropped his personal number at the end of his first book. He’s choosing one thing to quit every week, be it an old habit or any one of his many prestigious roles on various boards across the globe. He’s helping Uganda launch its space program. If you’ve read any of his books like the New York Times Bestseller Love Does, you know the man is pure energy. It wouldn’t exactly be out of character for him.

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