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The Mark Groves Podcast

#510: The Benefits of a Digital Detox

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I explore how our relationship with technology, and specifically our smartphones, has quietly become one of the greatest threats to our most sacred relationship: the one we have with ourselves. Devotion isn't just a spiritual concept, it's a choice we make every single day, and every time we reach for our phone we are either honoring or abandoning that relationship. We dig into the neuroscience of why social media is designed to hijack your attention, why even having your phone in the room is costing you more than you think, and the simple but powerful practices that can help you reclaim your focus, hear your own inner voice, and stop outsourcing your peace to a screen. Because focus is the competitive advantage of the future, and the life you want is waiting on the other side of your attention. Resources: Need a digital detox? We've put together a free, science-backed protocol with everything you need to reclaim your focus, sleep, and attention — download it here.  Get My Book! Liberated Love - Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire: https://markgroves.com/book —Explore My Courses: https://markgroves.com/courses Follow me and my work here: —Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/markgrovestv  —Subscribe to my Substack: https://markgroves.substack.com —Instagram - @createthelove: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove —Facebook - @createthelove: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove Have A Question?—Have a Question For Mark That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave us a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheMarkGrovesPodcast  Drop us a note at podcast@markgroves.com for sponsor product support, questions, comments, guest suggestions, or just to say hello! This episode is sponsored by: Cozy Earth: Use code CHANGE for 20% off sitewide at http://www.cozyearth.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Gross podcast. We explored last week the difference

0:07.1

between devotion and commitment. And this week, I want to really explore what does it mean to be

0:14.6

devoted and what gets in the way of that. Because that really resonated with a lot of you,

0:20.2

this idea that there's a dissent that

0:22.9

occurs with devotion from the mind because commitment is strategic, commitment is linear,

0:27.6

commitment is also carries a lot of weight, right?

0:31.8

This idea of discipline, of rigidity.

0:34.8

And it's like, what does it mean to be devoted to something?

0:37.3

So if you didn't listen

0:38.5

to that episode, go to the last episode I published and check it out. This week, you can listen to

0:44.3

this independently of that because my conversation is about what distracts us from devotion,

0:51.0

right? Because you could use your phone and be devoted to your work, devoted to your relationship.

0:57.4

Your phone can actually be an access point to deeper devotion. And yet we live in this time where we

1:04.2

are talking about this desperation of being disconnected from our phones. And we talk about things like

1:10.3

the 90s being something we aspire to, right?

1:14.1

That I wish I could just go back.

1:16.0

And the most popular post I've ever made on Instagram is that millennial urge to just

1:21.9

delete social media and get a digital camera and a Walkman.

1:25.8

So there's this idea that we wish for a time

1:29.8

where we didn't have a choice to be in relationship to technology, right?

1:35.0

So we're imagining if we can go back to the 90s, phones didn't exist,

1:38.8

and then we could experience the connectivity that we miss from the 90s.

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