How to Unplug with Danny Kim

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🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Smartphones have been around for a little over a decade, but in that short time, many of us have become addicted to our digital devices. Have you ever been staring at a gorgeous vista or surrounded by snow and found yourself wanting to pull out your phone to capture the moment? Danny Kim is a researcher and speaker who is studying the impact of technology and social media on our health. In his workshops, he talks about how to actually unplug.

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0:00.0	Smartphones have only been around for a little over a decade, but it's had a huge impact on our day-to-day lives.
0:10.0	Today, the average person checks their phone over 80 times a day.
0:14.0	That means people are checking their phone every 12 minutes.
0:17.4	That constant feeling of having to snap a picture to share with your friends and
0:20.7	followers, waiting for the likes to roll in, the depression that comes
0:24.6	when you don't get the likes you want, and the anxiety of all those unanswered texts and emails,
0:30.0	what impact is all this having on our mental health?
0:32.9	Today's guest Danny Kim is here to challenge you to unplug?
0:37.4	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living. Wild Ideas Worth Living.
0:49.0	Danny, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living. Thanks for having me here.
0:50.0	So I figured we just start with what you do and why you're so passionate about getting people to unplug
0:56.5	Great well it all started several years ago when I was working with college students
1:02.1	And I was talking about a little bit my research
1:04.8	on smartphone addiction and emotional intelligence and I will never forget my student looked at me and
1:11.0	she said I don't know how you can unplug.
1:15.0	And she kind of had this look on her face where it was like, like if I don't do something
1:19.5	about this, like there's going to be a lot of people that are stuck.
1:22.1	And so I think for me that kind of like was the personal, like,
1:25.9	passion of mind of saying, how can I help people
1:28.6	that are feeling trapped by their phones
1:30.8	and the kind of impact of technology.
1:33.6	When was this and what were you studying?
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