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Note to Self

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🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We deleted, we unplugged, we took walks. We made choices. We made time. Two years later, we catch up with some of the original Bored and Brilliant participants - some of the 20,000 people who joined our 2015 experiment. Today, that experiment is a book, designed to help us separate from our devices just a bit, and turn them from taskmaster to tool. To make space for boredom, and let the brilliance in.

Plus a new conversation with tech-star and NTS friend Tristan Harris, a designer once tasked with sucking your eyeballs to the screen. Now, he’s fighting the good fight to reclaim your brain.

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0:00.0	This is Liam Mulshine, checking back in.
0:03.9	I'm the guy who deleted Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat and Vine in one
0:08.9	fell swoop as a result of the original delete that app challenge, as well as due to a lot
0:13.6	of personal angst about how my social media and phone use was totally consuming me.
0:21.1	Can you imagine deleting all those apps off your phone and then keeping them off for
0:25.9	two years?
0:27.9	That was Liam.
0:29.3	One time, note to self-listener and friend, and he, along with many other listeners,
0:33.8	have been checking in with us to tell us how they're doing two years after the smartphone
0:38.6	experiment we did together on this podcast.
0:47.2	I'm a new summer Odie, and I'm here to help you stay focused on what really matters to
0:52.6	you in this crazy, accelerating world.
0:56.6	If you're a new listener, welcome.
0:59.0	Today, we are celebrating the first book to ever be born out of a Crown-Sourced Podcast
1:05.4	project.
1:06.8	My book, Board and Brilliant, is based on a week of experiments that 20,000 listeners
1:12.4	did with me right here in 2015.
1:16.6	For one week, we tweaked our smartphone habits.
1:19.6	We spent more time just getting bored, and we discovered that it could unlock our most
1:25.0	productive and creative selves.
1:28.4	Why?
1:29.4	Well, because boredom ignites a particular network in our brains, and this is where our most
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