Hello and welcome to Happy Play. So I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that looks for ways to bring a little more peace and

contentment into our everyday lives. Today I'm meeting Emma Gannon.

We have tried to get wisdom from everyone else but ourselves and it's like the wisdom isn't on your phone,

the wisdom isn't in a self-help book, it's really inside and I think we're just too distracted and busy and noisy

that we've lost that instinct. I used to go on Twitter just to see what other people were saying for I knew what I wanted to say.

Having started her career in digital marketing and social media, Emma is now a Sunday Times bestselling author and an

award-winning podcaster. Her latest book, Disconnected, How to Stay Human in an online world, looks at how and why the internet,

somewhere, most of us spend most of our time has lost its humanity and what we can do to enhance our offline lives again.

What I found really interesting was her articulating that it's not just that the internet can make us disconnect from each other but

actually and scarily from ourselves too. Emma came round to my house a couple of weeks ago to dissect the worrying

ways and the gorgeous ways the internet has affected our lives. We talked about how it stripped us of being able to enjoy exploring different

opinions, the curious quirks that make us all human thanks to cutthroat cancel culture, as well as how the way we choose to

present ourselves online really just speaks to our deep desire to be acknowledged and too belong.

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