I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Those devices that take over our life completely when I was through my second lockdown I was locked down in Montreal and the whole idea of having time alone was inspiring me to include more reflection anditation and silence in my life and if you follow me on Instagram I was

Documenting the experiment in something I used to call half-munk

Which is basically to dedicate half of my life to the fast-paced modern world and half of my life to actually

monk-like activities, you know, service and reflection and so on.

And one of the very early things I did was I realized how much of my time I was

spending on devices and it was seven hours and 40 minutes a day and for most of us by the way were not aware

we're just wiping and typing but those health digital well-being apps on your

phone will tell you that for many of us who are not doing that great.

And it's time that is so valuable,

because if you take eight hours a day,

four years in, near 10,000 hours,

which, you know, has per Malcolm Gladwell's advice if you spend

10,000 hours doing anything, whatever it is, you're going to be perfect at it.

You're going to be one of the best in the world at it and what are we doing?

We're becoming the best in the world and swiping and liking and what a waste of life that is when you really think about it.

I spoke recently at an event in the Mam called

Sink Digital and Sink was sponsored by Ithra amazing amazing foundation in in the in Saudi Arabia to raise awareness around digital

habits and around digital well-being in general. And I rarely ever get impressed by events, but this one was quite

something. You know, it was really insightful. Incredible speakers flew in from all over the world. It was a bit of a think tank if you want to

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