#255: The Joy of Missing Out - Getting Control of Your Digital Life
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 25 November 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel overwhelmed by your digital devices? Do you constantly have an itch to check your phone even when you’re trying to focus on important work or interacting with your loved ones? Do you find the constant onslaught of opinions coming from the digital ether psychologically tiring? Do you feel like your inner life and grasp of existential meaning becomes more shallow the more time you spend online?
At one time, my guest today on the podcast could say yes to all those questions and decided to do something about it. Her name is Christina Crook and she’s the author of the Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World. Today on the show Christina and I discuss the promise and perils of digital technology, her experiment with quitting the internet for a month, and tactics you can take to master technology rather than being its slave. Lots of great insights in this episode to curb your digital addiction.
After the show is over, check out the show notes at aom.is/jomo for links to resources where you can delve deeper into this topic.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brad McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Mamminess Podcast. |
| 0:18.3 | Do you feel overwhelmed by your digital devices? |
| 0:21.0 | Do you constantly have an instant to check your phone even when you're trying to focus |
| 0:23.9 | on important work or interacting with your loved ones? |
| 0:26.2 | Do you find the constant onslaught of opinions coming from the digital ether? |
| 0:29.4 | Psychologically tiring? |
| 0:31.0 | Do you feel like you're inner life and grasp of existential meaning becomes more shallow |
| 0:34.3 | the more time you spend online? |
| 0:36.4 | Well at one time my guest on the podcast could say yes to all of those questions who decided |
| 0:40.7 | to do something about it, her name is Christina Crook, and she's the author of the book Joy |
| 0:44.2 | of Missing Out, Finding Balance in a Wired World, and today on the show Christina and I |
| 0:48.4 | discuss the promises and perils of digital technology. |
| 0:51.4 | Her experiment with quitting the internet for an entire month including no email, and tactics |
| 0:55.8 | you can take to master technology rather than mean it's slave. |
| 0:59.8 | Lots of great insights on this episode of Curb Your Digital Addiction. |
| 1:02.6 | After the show is over check out the show notes at aam.is slash joomo, it's j-o-m-o, for links |
| 1:08.2 | to resources reading delve deeper into this topic as well as links to resources to curb |
| 1:11.9 | your digital addictions. |
| 1:13.2 | Again aam.is slash joomo. |
| 1:20.2 | Christina Crook welcome to the show. |
| 1:22.5 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:24.4 | Your book is called The Joy of Missing Out, Finding Balance in a Wired World, and it's |
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