E54. Adam Alter Helps You Manage Your Screen Addiction

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Adam Alter, author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, stops by to talk about screen and tech addiction. He and Bridget discuss the billions of dollars that go into keeping us looking at our screens, from game app design to, story formatting, to rolling from one episode into the next. They talk the evolution of binging, the fragmentation of our attention spans, the dopamine overloads we’re being doused with, and the difference between wanting and liking. If you’ve ever been stuck down a YouTube rabbit hole at 3:00am wondering why you didn’t go to bed hours ago, Adam offers some answers and some tips for setting boundaries and breaking unhealthy habits. Full transcript available here: WiW54-AdamAlter-Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
0:02.4	Now available on Apple Podcasts.
0:04.1	Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. your
0:33.0	feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	This week we are excited to have Adam Altar.
0:38.0	He is an associate professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business
0:43.4	with an affiliated appointment in the New York University
0:46.0	Psychology Department.
0:47.6	Adam is the New York Times best-selling author
0:49.8	of the book Irresistible, which I referenced many many times on this podcast.
0:55.8	I'm with Adam Altar everyone. So tell us who you are.
0:59.4	I'm Adam Altar. I'm an associate professor of marketing and psychology at NYU's Stern School of Business and I write some books and I wrote a book most recently called Irresistible which is about why we can't stop using screens.
1:13.0	If anyone listens to this podcast regularly,
1:16.0	they'll know I've been obsessively talking about this book
1:19.0	and I think I've mentioned on most of the interviews I've gone on. I'm really actually just a
1:25.2	saleswoman for your book now. I don't know if it's moved any needles but maybe you've sold
1:30.7	like three or four copies not to brag.
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