Can You Put Your Phone Down? / CLASSIC

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Adam Alter, author of "Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked," Dr. Amishi Jha, author of "Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention," and Nir Eyal, author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life," help us put down our phones in this episode.

Joe asks Adam Alter, “Do you think they recognize that this is unhealthy, but do it anyway?”

“Yeah. We know that. We know that because they've been interviewed and they say, they've said, a number of them, 'We are sort of agnostic about consumer well-being and consumer welfare. We don't really-- we're not trying to hurt people, but also it's not our primary aim. Our primary aim is to ensure that you spend as many minutes of the day on the screen as possible. And if you do that, we'll consider it a success.'”

In this episode, we take advice from the experts and how to focus our attention on the things we want instead of what we’re naturally drawn to, our phones. In this episode you’ll learn about…

- Extracting your best phone habits and leaving the worst habits behind
- Being more aware, moment by moment, of how we’re using our attention
- Hacking back your attention from external distractions

If you want to watch the full episodes,

Addicted to Tech? An Expert Explains How to Overcome It / Adam Alter and Joe De Sena - https://youtu.be/pbaRVE5UTXU

Learn to Strengthen Your Focus / Joe De Sena & Dr Amishi Jha - https://youtu.be/heejP9tsLb8

Nir Eyal | Become Indistractable - https://youtu.be/XWtTwWtfEjQ

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CREDITS:

Producer: Lake Watters

Hosts: Johnny Waite, Joe De Sena

Co-Hosts: Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye

Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

Transcript

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0:00.0	Do you think they recognize that this is unhealthy but do it anyway?
0:07.1	Yeah, we know that. We know that because they've been interviewed and they say they've said a number of them
0:13.3	we are sort of agnostic about consumer well-being
0:16.0	and consumer welfare.
0:17.1	We don't really, we're not trying to hurt people,
0:20.0	but also it's not our primary aim.
0:21.9	Our primary aim is to ensure that you spend as many minutes
0:24.6	of the day on the screen as possible.
0:26.6	And if you do that, we'll consider it a success.
0:29.6	Your devices, your phones, we've come to depend on them,
0:32.2	and yet we struggle.
0:33.2	We know there are negative impacts of spending too much time engaged with those screens.
0:37.6	Today three brilliant thinkers talk about the relationships we have with those devices.
0:42.0	Adam Alter, the author of The Rise of
0:44.3	Addictive Technology and the business of keeping us hooked. Amishi Jaa, author of
0:48.7	Peak Mind, find your focus, own your attention. Near Aial, author of Indestractable,
0:54.0	how to control your attention and choose your life.
0:57.0	Share their thoughts on why we are so addicted to these devices
1:00.0	and how we can begin to put that relationship back in balance.
1:03.6	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Junk, the official headband of Spartan
1:07.2	pros.
1:08.4	Junk produces the best headband, guaranteed to work as hard as you do.
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