7 Screen Free Weeks to Improved Memory & Changed Brain with Carlos Whittaker
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Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What if you unplugged from every screen in your life for seven straight weeks? No phone. No TV. No laptop. Just silence, stillness, and the raw, unfiltered experience of being human.
That’s exactly what Carlos Whittaker did—living with monks and Amish farmers to see what happens when you trade constant digital noise for presence, wonder and connection.
In this episode, Carlos shares the physical and mental withdrawals of going screen-free, the surprising brain scan results that stunned his doctors, and the “lost arts of being human” he rediscovered. You’ll learn simple, practical steps to reclaim your attention, rebuild genuine community and design your own “screen-free sabbatical,” even if you only start with two hours a week. By the end, you may never look at your phone—or your life—the same way again
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, bite-size brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. |
| 0:09.0 | You're mine. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:23.1 | Show me. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome back, QuickBrain. I'm your host and your brain coach Jim Quick. Today's episode |
| 0:29.7 | is something we rarely give our brain, which is like stillness. You know, when we spend |
| 0:36.4 | time to wonder, to think, to ponder, to just notice things. |
| 0:41.8 | What if we turn down the volume of life long enough to actually hear ourselves think, you know, again? |
| 0:47.6 | And maybe even hear something bigger than ourselves. |
| 0:51.2 | According to a 23 study, excessive screen time is linked to reduced cortical |
| 0:57.1 | thickness. And what that means is especially in children's brains. And this is the area that's |
| 1:03.2 | responsible for critical thinking, for language, and adults aren't immune either. Constant digital |
| 1:10.0 | distraction can lead to mental fatigue, |
| 1:12.6 | decreased memory recalls, shrinking attention spans, skyrocketing anxiety. There was one MIT study |
| 1:22.1 | that I was reading that even found that multitasking with your technology can lower your IQ by upwards of 10 points, |
| 1:29.6 | which is the same hit as missing a full night's sleep. So today, I'm very excited to have this |
| 1:35.6 | conversation with someone who, let's say, disconnected to reconnect. And so this would be a fun |
| 1:43.1 | conversation. It's with Carlos Whitaker. He stepped away from |
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