#510: The Benefits of a Digital Detox
The Mark Groves Podcast
Mark Groves
4.9 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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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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