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The Rubin Report

Is Your Phone Addiction Ruining Your Life? Watch This | Peter Boghossian | Book Club Chapter 10

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Peter Boghossian (Professor, Portland State University) about the tenth chapter of “Don’t Burn This Book”, entitled “Move On with Your Life’’. Special guest Peter Boghossian and Dave Rubin talk about phone addiction. Since we are all spending more time online many of us are plagued by social media addiction or internet addiction. Both of these become even harder to fight due to smartphones. Our online habits can harm our relationships and make us less present. Dave shares some of his easy-to-implement digital detox tips. Dave and Peter discuss how practicing some digital minimalism can go a long way to improving our relationships and mental health. Dave also shares his process for writing “Don’t Burn This Book”, some tips for people considering writing a book, and some opinions of his that changed during the writing process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all know that the left is no longer liberal, but the past few weeks have shown like never before the

0:04.9

distressing results of our trend towards polarization. The mainstream media has doubled down again

0:10.8

and again on their petty hyperpartisan mudslinging in the face of a true crisis.

0:15.9

It's more important than ever to be informed, engaged, responsible citizens who want to follow

0:21.3

the facts and ignore the nonsense and the noise. That's exactly what Domper in this book is all about.

0:27.4

While we faced a ton of pressure to delay the publication of this book because of the quarantine,

0:32.2

I felt it was important to get these ideas out as soon as possible. I know that free thought,

0:37.6

free speech and patriotism are as important to you as they are to me, so I hope this book

0:43.2

entertains and inspires you during the days and weeks ahead. Order now at Domper in this book.

0:49.2

Hi, my name is Peter Pagotian from the Don't Burn This Book Club with Dave Rubin. This is

1:00.2

Chapter 10. Move on with your life and it is a genuine pleasure to do this. I love the book.

1:06.8

I love Chapter 10 and I'm just going to jump right in. Dave and I'm going to ask you some questions.

1:12.4

So first, in your opinion, one of the things that you said in the book that's been

1:17.6

tormenting me since I wrote it was how you put away your devices and you get off the grid.

1:23.6

Tell me a bit. Tell me how do you do that? I mean, like even my phone, I even use as an alarm to

1:30.9

wake me up. I don't have an alarm clock. I look at the time. How do you do that? You also meant you

1:36.5

know, don't put your phone in your room because the bedroom isn't for that. How do you get started

1:44.0

with that? Yeah. So first off, I just want to say thank you for doing this, Pete. And you were when

1:49.1

we looked at the 10 people that I wanted to hit these 10 chapters, I knew that you were the guy I

1:53.7

wanted to do chapter 10 with because I think our friendship and I think the things that you've

1:58.9

tried to put out into the world for whatever our minor political disagreements might be,

2:04.4

are you want to live in the same place that I want to live in? And you've stood up to the mob in

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