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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

CNLP 677 | Carlos Whittaker on Becoming Amish and a Monk (for a while), How Technology Addicts Us To Knowledge and Control, and What Changes in Your Brain When You Ditch Your Phone

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Whittaker returns to the podcast to talk about his latest experiment—becoming a monk and becoming Amish for seven weeks to detox from his phone. He shares what happened to his brain, his heart, and his soul and how technology addicted him to knowledge and control. Plus, he discussed what changes in your brain as you ditch your phone.

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The Art of Leadership Network.

0:03.0

I was detoxing.

0:05.0

My body was literally having physical manifestations of anxiety.

0:10.0

You know what?

0:11.0

And I'm sitting here going like, because of a phone? I mean I honestly started thinking maybe something else is wrong with me am I sick

0:18.1

Because I was like having night sweats. I was waking up in the middle of the night, completely soaking wet.

0:23.9

My heart was palpitating during the day,

0:26.1

like skipping beats, right?

0:27.2

So we've all had that happen before,

0:28.5

but it was just kind of happening over and over again

0:30.8

throughout the day.

0:33.0

I was shaky, I was short of breath,

0:35.7

all of these things and it was actually terrifying.

0:39.4

Welcome to the Carrie New Hoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here and I hope

0:47.6

our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Hey we are

0:51.6

in the midst of celebrating our 10th anniversary this month and we're giving stuff away.

0:56.4

We've got some big green eggs.

0:58.0

It's my absolute favorite thing to do.

0:59.8

If you like to barbecue grill, smoke, you ever want to try brisket man there's nothing better

1:04.8

than the big green egg one grand prize winner is gonna get an extra large big green

1:09.1

egg that's what I use plus accessories and a special steak delivery.

1:13.0

Two runners up, we'll get mini maxes.

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