Casey Schwartz, ATTENTION: A LOVE STORY

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Casey Schwartz is the author of Attention: A Love Story which is part memoir and part comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture's flagging ability to pay attention. Casey writes about her struggle with Adderall, her parents, psychedelic science, and the four incredible writers who inspire her. Casey and I discussed the idea that Silicon Valley is literally hijacking us through our phones and why are we giving away our attention so casually. Casey shared her personal experience with the #MeToo movement and the rock bottom moment that ended up yielding the best possible outcome for her. I have a long-time personal connection with Casey's mom, author Marie Brenner, and I loved being able to share my memories with Casey.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
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1:01.7	podcast. And we found time. Go find yourself some time too. I hope everybody's doing okay during this
1:07.0	quarantine. Bye. I'm here today with Casey Schwartz, who's the author of Attention, A Love Story. A graduate of Brown University, Casey has a master's degree in
1:15.2	developmental neuroscience and psychoanalysis from University College London. Her first book,
1:20.3	in the Mind Fields, was about the culture clash between the old and new ways of thinking
1:24.6	about the mind and brain. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Departures, New York,
1:30.2	and many other publications.
1:31.6	She currently lives in New York in Brooklyn with her husband and her new baby. Welcome, Casey. Thanks for coming on moms, don't have time to read books. Thank you, Zibby. I'm so thrilled to be here. Casey had a baby six weeks ago named Dash and she's finally out of the house and, you know, out on the subway and back into the mainstream.
1:48.6	So we're going to go easy on her.
1:50.4	Don't go too easy on me.
1:52.5	So congratulations again.
1:54.3	Attention, a love story.
1:55.5	I loved this book.
1:57.4	It was so good.
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