Mini: Controlling Your Smart Phone Use / Spartan WAY with guest Joe De Sena
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Zach Even-Esh and Joe De Sena (Spartan founder & CEO) ask: Who’s in charge? You or your cell phone? People drive cars looking at their phone instead of the road. People look at their phones while crossing the street instead of looking where they’re going. Here’s how to control the cell phone vs your phone controlling YOU.
LESSONS:
Does your phone control you or do you control your use of the phone?
Start controlling your cell phone by eliminating the first and last 15-20 minutes of your day with a ZERO technology rule
Progress towards 1 day a week of no cell phone use.
LINKS:
More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com
Read “The Spartan Way” https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book
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Zach’s STRONG Life Podcast https://apple.co/2vFaCv1
Joe De Sena @realJoeDesena
CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2019 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Spartans, I'm here with my friend and founder of Spartan, Joe DeCenna, and we've got one tip for you that could change everything in your world. |
| 0:09.0 | Spartans, welcome back to another awesome episode of the Spartan Up |
| 0:15.3 | podcast. I'm here with Joe DeSena. I'm your host, |
| 0:19.0 | Zach Evernesh, and this is Spartan Way. And you and I were talking about how people are addicted to their phones. |
| 0:26.6 | You and I have certainly gone through that, running our businesses. |
| 0:30.2 | And we came up with a little phrase of basically, like, we feel like we're sometimes a slave to the phone like it owns us. |
| 0:37.0 | It's got to be 20 plus years. |
| 0:39.0 | As soon as phones became smaller and capable of traveling around with them, I've been addicted to this thing. |
| 0:48.0 | I've been constantly in touch with people and I gotta say, I think I would add 10 years to my life if I got rid of it. |
| 0:54.8 | If I threw it in this lake right now, which would be great. |
| 0:58.2 | Now I will give you the other side of that. |
| 1:00.3 | If I start reaching out to you, if I start calling you and your phone's on Do Not Disturb, I get annoyed. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm like I can't reach a guy. |
| 1:07.0 | That's right, that is true. |
| 1:08.0 | I get annoyed. |
| 1:09.0 | We've been trained to think that people need to hear from us now. I can't get back to them tomorrow and I think it |
| 1:15.4 | doesn't have to be anything extreme it could start with the first 20 or 30 minutes of |
| 1:21.6 | your day no phone the last 20 30 minutes of your day, no phone, the last 20, 30 minutes of your day, no phone. |
| 1:26.2 | When I go to eat dinner with the family, phone stays in the car. |
| 1:29.3 | I like it. |
| 1:30.3 | I like it a lot. |
| 1:31.3 | I just heard a stat, almost 1,000 texts per month per individual in the United States |
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