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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How can we treat technology as the tool it's supposed to be, as opposed to the crutch it's become? This week's poggie has lots of ideas for you.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast. This is the podcast all about learning to slow down
0:06.5	in a world that isn't very slow. My name is Brooke McCallory. Thank you very much for joining us
0:13.3	today. And my name is Ben McHallory and welcome to episode 196. We're very, very close to our 200th episode.
0:23.7	We are indeed.
0:24.7	Never thought that would happen.
0:25.9	Never.
0:26.4	Never.
0:26.8	Never.
0:27.1	We're going to talk about a huge element of, I guess, how fast the world is at the moment
0:35.9	and is a major reason why it is.
0:39.4	And that's technology.
0:41.0	Yes.
0:41.8	It's probably in the top three issue, I think, that anyone who talks to me about their
0:49.8	efforts to slow down will mention as being problematic.
0:53.2	It's a technology.
0:53.9	We're required or expected
0:55.5	to be on all the time. Devices are designed to maximize our addiction to them. Like,
1:02.2	we're really up against it when it comes to technology. And I'm not anti-tech, of course. This
1:07.9	podcast is technology. Like, I wouldn't have the job that I have without it. And I think
1:14.5	that there are so many good things about technology beyond social media. I mean, just phenomenal
1:20.8	things that we can do as a result of all that. It's such a great tool. That's the word. Yes,
1:26.4	it's a tool that we should use not be used by.
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