43% of Americans admit feeling addicted to their phones.

We're not addicted to our phones.

Our phones are just the needle.

What's coming through the phone into us is what we're actually addicted to,

which is I was about seven hours and 23 minutes a day on my phone.

Seven hours a day equals 49 hours a week.

That equals 100 days a year.

I will spend over 10 years of my remaining 30 looking at my screen.

You know what?

I'm going to do an experiment on myself and see what life would look like if I just

don't look at a screen for two months. Carlos Whitaker spent years in the spotlight, but it's what

happened when he turned down the noise that changed everything. In a world more connected than ever,

he's sounding the alarm on a crisis of disconnection because life isn't just about getting better,

it's about being whole. Let's talk about the monastery.

23 hours a day of silence.

The first two days, anxiety, night sweats.

I was coming off of a drug.

This is the only way I can really put it into words for people to understand what it

felt like for my brain to finally have silence.

Some interesting data I want to kind of run by you.

Let's do it.

Americans spend an average of four and a half hours per day on their phones.

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