Is Technology Ruining Our Minds? (ft. Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD)

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Do I exist if I’m not on social media? Can I fake it till I make it? What’s the secret to a good life?

In this week’s episode, I enlist my old friend and host of the wildly popular The Psychology Podcast, Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD. to dissect our psyche in the social media age.

Reflecting on his personal experience and drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Scott asks—and answers—questions that might reveal aspects of yourself you never knew were there, and set you on the path to a better life.

We’re going to dive deep and get existential. We’re going to talk neurodiversity, vulnerability, and Batman. What more can you ask for?

Exactly. Go get it.

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0:00.0	20 million books sold. Zero Fisg given. It's the subtle art of not giving a
0:08.1	podcast with your host Mark Manson. Scott, it's great to have you here.
0:15.0	Mark, it is so good to chat with you again.
0:17.0	One of the first guests on the new podcast,
0:20.0	the old friend of mine, it's an honor to have you here speaking of honors you were
0:24.4	recently named by Stanford in the top 2% of scientists you know I really don't like to make a
0:31.1	big deal out of it but technically my ranking put me at
0:33.6	0.05% who's counted I didn't want to be like dooshy about it yeah I just said I
0:40.3	did technically make the within the top 2% okay so we'll edit that top 0.5% oh oh 5 okay oh 5% what's
0:50.0	interesting about that though and you mentioned this on Twitter you were putting a special education class that's right and I've actually never
0:55.9	talked to you about this about your childhood and I'm curious to open up with that and
1:01.1	talk about it thank you I mean it is linked to this ranking thing
1:04.8	because it didn't really didn't feel real at all,
1:06.9	you know, and it's like, I wonder at like what point in my life
1:09.6	am I gonna feel like, you know, I didn't like fake it in some way.
1:14.0	We're all wondering that.
1:16.0	About me?
1:18.0	You're way to make me so better.
1:20.0	You're like, we've all been worried that.
1:22.0	Yeah. No, that's good. It makes me feel better when I hear that.
1:25.2	Because like, I had friends were like, oh, we believe it.
1:27.7	It was like, I wish I didn't need to hear that.
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