#183: The Power of Fun with Catherine Price

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Themes: Fun, Technology, Social Media, Relationships, Behavioural Addiction Summary: I discovered Catherine Price’s book, How to Break Up With Your Phone, during the height of what I like to call my “technology breakdown” this September. My relationship with my phone and Instagram was creating a lot of anxiety and resentment and discovering this book was the message I needed to explore and regain control in my relationship to technology. Dubbed “The Marie Kondo of Brains” by The New York Times, Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist and speaker and the author of books including The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, and How to Break Up with Your Phone. She is also the creator and founder of ScreenLifeBalance.com, which is dedicated to helping people learn how to scroll less and live more. Her work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Slate, Men's Journal, Self, and Outside, among others. Discover: How our phones are deliberately designed to trigger the release of dopamine and ultimately contribute to addictive behaviours The profound negative effects of our devices on intimacy and relationships with other people The importance of fleeting interactions on our wellbeing How to create space from technology and what to do with that space How to harness the power of fun to balance the negative effects of screen time Links: HowtoHaveFun.com ScreenLifeBalance.com Instagram: @_CatherinePrice Twitter: @Catherine_Price Sponsors: Organifi | Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% off all products at organifi.com/createthelove House of Wise Co. | Use code CREATETHELOVEBOGO to get one free box of gummies when you buy one box at houseofwise.co Create the Love Cards | Use code CTLCARDS15 for 15% off at createthelove.com/cards Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.
0:12.1	I hope this finds you so well wherever you're at in the world and whatever you're going through right now.
0:19.8	I've been curious due to selfish reasons for my own curiosity about our relationship
0:26.7	to technology, our devices, how that impacts our lives.
0:32.2	And, you know, not just on a biological level of like, what does it do to us?
0:35.7	Like, what is happening in our brains that makes
0:38.8	us want to or like have a real hard time even creating space from these devices they become so
0:45.9	integrated into our experience and you know this this is so imperative from a relational perspective
0:53.3	because of course they can be incredible devices
0:56.0	in order to create connections right listen to podcasts like this one make friends date all the things
1:02.7	communicate with our partners our families you know and i i think there's really a lot of magic in that
1:08.2	you know much like any technology. And what always comes with
1:11.7	technology is this fear that technology is going to end the world. You know, I'm sure when the
1:15.8	fax machine came out, people are like, oh my God, the fax machine, what are we going to do? It's going to
1:20.9	change everything. And, you know, I do think, though, there's a lot more validity to the concerns because, at least around cell phones and smartphones and social media.
1:35.2	And today's podcast episode is a conversation with a woman who has built an expertise in that area of like, how do you actually break up with your phone that's a
1:45.7	book that she wrote and I'm curious about that aspect like what steps do you take to actually
1:51.5	regain the choice over your relationship to your phone like how do you become the decider
1:57.2	of the agreements of that relationship and that aspect of how do we create distance from
2:02.1	our devices and use them as tools instead of being used by them? And what comes from that,
2:09.2	though, is even more exciting. And I'm so pumped because Catherine Price, who's the guest today,
2:16.2	who's just an incredible woman, she discusses and expresses
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