95: How to Build a Happier Brain by Mastering Your Use of Technology with Ellen Petry Leanse
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Ever feel like your brain is rotting away as you spend too much time on your smartphone? Worried your kids will have no social skills because their main form of socializing is texting and group chats? Learn how to "hack back" and start to build a happier brain through connection with other humans and nature, which strengthen the longer-lasting, blissful serotonin cycle in the brain (as opposed to the quick-fix dopamine cycle). This new brain info will leave you pondering your tech use for days.
What You'll Learn in this Episode:
- Why it's critical that we "hack back" against designers who are creating online interactions in a way that cause addiction and distraction.
- How to teach our teens and kids to put the smartphone down and connect with other humans and nature.
- Why we should never start our day with technology
- And much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Newsworthy Podcast, the place for credible, unbiased, fun news that won't leave you depressed and that you can consume in less than 10 minutes a morning. |
| 0:11.8 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 95. |
| 0:17.7 | And if anyone has ever played Angry Birds or some other game for hour upon hour, or can't put down their |
| 0:24.4 | Facebook page, or keeps liking, liking, liking, all the beautiful shining objects they see on |
| 0:30.1 | Instagram, voila, that is dopamine at work. And it's been coded into the experience specifically to hook you. |
| 0:38.3 | Designers are hacking you and they're proud of it. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:49.4 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:59.6 | Thank you. your host, Jen Ryday. Hey, welcome back to Vibrant Happy Women. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm Dr. Jen Ritey, host of the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, Mom of Six, and I am here |
| 1:08.2 | to help you take better care of yourself, to find more meaning and purpose, |
| 1:14.6 | to love yourself, to have boundaries, all of those good things that help us to live a more vibrant |
| 1:19.5 | and happy life. Welcome to the show. Last week, I spoke with Jaya Rose all about manifesting and amazing and awesome 2018. I love talking |
| 1:32.0 | about the law of attraction and the energy involved in attracting and even perceiving all the |
| 1:38.6 | opportunities we have coming our way. So if you want to learn about how to manifest your goals with power and vision |
| 1:45.8 | and intention, go back and listen to that episode at genriday.com forward slash 94. |
| 1:52.9 | Today we're talking about technology. Now before you click away and you don't want to feel guilty, |
| 1:58.6 | stick around and listen because I loved this interview with |
| 2:02.1 | Ellen Petrie Lianz. She talks about the chemicals involved in our use of social media and how |
| 2:09.4 | social media designers, Instagram designers, all of those online designers are working hard and |
| 2:16.5 | going to conferences to learn how to make |
| 2:20.4 | us addicted, to really tap into those dopamine cycles. And then she says in contrast, if we start to |
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