Is Our Reliance On Technology Turning Our Brains Into Mush? with Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee is a psychologist, speaker, and the award-winning author of “Deviced! Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World.” She joins Jonathan to discuss how reliant on technology we are, and the mental, emotional, and cultural ways this dependence is affecting our lives. Follow Dr. Dodgen-Magee on Instagram and Twitter @drdoreendm, and at www.doreendm.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.2	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Bannes and every week I sit down for a 40-minute
1:15.7	conversation with a for-reliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
1:21.2	On today's episode I'm joined by psychologist author and speaker Dr. Doreen Dodja McGee where I
1:27.6	ask her is our reliance on technology turning our brains into mush.
1:35.7	Welcome. Thank you. But you're not, I mean here's the thing, becoming a psychologist and a doctor
1:41.3	no less is no easy feat but you're also an author, author of devised, balancing life and technology
1:50.7	in a digital world. I'm not surprised that I was brought to you universally to talk to you.
1:57.9	My first question is this and then we can really go free. Do you remember that show revolution
2:04.0	on NBC? I do not. Okay, it was a show called a revolution. I think two very honest seasons,
2:13.5	they really tried but the premise was is that like this evil like radicalized American
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