1KHO 222: Think Critically Especially When You’re Being Told Not To | Tom Hall, Optometrist and author of Brain Drive

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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I've been looking forward to this episode for a long time because I absolutely love Tom Hall's new books, Brain Drive and New Arridor. They are fascinating works of fiction that really get you thinking about the role of technology in our life... plus the books are page turners and they are clean! They're great options for tweens, teens, and beyond. Amazingly Tom is both an author and an optometrist! In this episode we discuss his new books as well as eye health and the impact of outdoor time on eyesight and eye functioning. Tom reflects on childhood experiences that may have ingrained the belief that certain accomplishments are out of reach, emphasizing the power of imagination. He shares a personal journey of seeking productivity in his time and highlights the nerve-racking feeling of releasing your creative work into the world. The episode concludes with a nostalgic reflection on the bygone era when outdoor play was the norm, and children stayed outside until the streetlights came on. Join Ginny Yurich and Tom Hall as they unravel the intersections of creativity, productivity, technology, and eye health on the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. ** Order your copy of Brain Drive here >> https://amzn.to/3Gu4NnX Order your copy of New Arridor here >> https://amzn.to/3uN6t9F Learn more about Tom here >> https://tomhallwrites.com/ Download the Book Club questions for Brain Drive here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/brain-drive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Hurich, I'm the founder of
0:04.4	1000 Hours Outside and I'm so so so excited about this episode. I have been
0:09.2	looking forward to this one for a very long time. Tom Hall author and optometrist and dad is here.
0:17.3	Welcome. Thank you and thank you for having me. This is so exciting so this is a funny
0:22.2	path that we got here is that your wife is amazing.
0:26.6	Brittany and she did this really cool.
0:30.5	Yes, salsa making class and I came with our oldest daughter Vivian and we just had an absolute blast.
0:36.6	There's like all these moms there plus Vivian and we learned how to make salsa and she had like a million tomatoes and we learned all this cool stuff and while I was
0:44.7	there you and I met and I got a chance to snag a copy of your two books that are novels.
0:53.6	Mainly, would you say, written for teen,
0:57.4	a young adult?
0:59.0	Yes, yes, teen young adult is where I would place it firmly.
1:03.0	Mm-hmm. And I just like fell in love with these books. They're such page turners. They're clean and I think as a parent it's hard to find good books for kids a topic is absolutely fascinating
1:16.1	it's like sci-fi futuristic but also like what's really going on like transhumanism
1:21.5	just makes you think about a lot of things and so this
1:25.3	is heading into the holidays people are looking for gifts for their kids and I just
1:29.7	I'm super excited to talk about your two books,
1:33.2	Brain Drive.
1:34.0	It's cool that there's a series
1:36.8	because it's not just one book, right?
1:38.4	And so there's these two books.
1:40.3	Let's start off with just this topic of you wrote books and you wrote some novels which is a huge accomplishment to have this storyline that weaves through two books and these characters but I mean this is a page
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