Author, Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain discusses her films, book 24/6, and the human side of tech (#047)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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#TechShabbat #character #neuroscience Filmmaker, and author Tiffany Shlain discusses her life, films and her book 24/6, about the neuroscience of how technology reshapes our brains and how the practice of turning off all screens 24 hours each week can make us healthier and more creative. http://tiffanyshlain.com https://twitter.com/tiffanyshlain Get the book This practice of turning off all screens for twenty-four hours each week, which she’s done for over a decade with her husband and kids (sixteen and ten), has completely changed their lives, giving them more time, productivity, connection, and presence. She and her family call it “Technology Shabbat”, which has become a worldwide movement. Learn more about it at https://www.24sixlife.com/ Drawn from the ancient ritual of Shabbat, living 24/6 can work for anyone from any background. With humor and wisdom, Shlain shares her story, offers lessons she has learned, and provides a blueprint for how to do it yourself. It has become even more important recently, in wake of the worldwide pandemic that has made so many of us reliant on screens for work, shopping, socializing, even exercise. COVID-19 has changed how we use the Web in some beneficial ways, but it has also made us even more dependent on screens for our every need. We are now spending almost all day online, and many of us are finding that it’s just too much. Turning off screens now feels like it provides double resilience for the soul. Having a much-needed boundary and separation — a day unlike the others, a day dedicated to being present, reflecting, resting, and connecting with those around me — helps us make sense of this unusual way we are living, where time seems to blur between days and between work and family and life. Because that’s what Shabbat is all about — carving out time to appreciate and find joy in what’s right in front of you, and focus on what truly matters. As Heschel calls it, it’s creating a “Palace in Time.” Watch Tiffany’s award-winning, provocative short films discussed in this interview: The Adaptable Mind https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.letitripple.org/adaptable_mind__;!!Mih3wA!WZVDrv6-nVu20ycjHqIolC9bGENbbVxnJmwlaU513fzuzNLlBUFhv4BFELjEqiFx$ The Science of Character Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to Into the Impossible.
0:12.6	A program coming to you from the University of California,
0:14.8	San Diego.
0:15.6	I'm Stuart Valco.
0:17.3	It is my pleasure to introduce today our guest, Tiffany Schlaine.
0:21.2	She's an author and a filmmaker, her new book is 24-6. We'll be discussing
0:26.4	her book and several of her films. Welcome, Tiffany.
0:30.3	It's great to be here.
0:41.6	So I'll start at the beginning the book 24-6 and you are a company will let it ripple it has a large body of work
0:45.8	24-6 has become more than a book. It's even a maybe some movement has become a trend. Tell me a little bit about how you got the idea
0:51.8	for the book and why decided to write this book
0:56.0	because I know you have more than one book in you.
0:58.0	Yes, one note, it's lead at ripple.org, it's a non-profit film studio in San Francisco.
1:05.0	In the book 24-6, I have a background in technology.
1:09.3	I love technology.
1:10.3	I founded the Webby Awards many years ago and I'm always experimenting with it at my
1:17.6	film studio making films and using the web to make people think and rethink the
1:22.4	way we're living and issues around technology and
1:24.0	humanity. But around over 10 years ago I was starting to feel like the screens
1:30.4	were making me distracted all the time. I'm sure like most people feel. And I had this very dramatic
1:36.3	series of events happen where my father, Leonard Slane, died of brain cancer within days of my daughter being born and it really felt like life was
1:44.8	grabbing me by the shoulders and saying focus on what matters and at that point my husband
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