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Finding Genius Podcast

Technology and its Impact on our Lives, our Children's Lives, and how to Unplug for a Happier Life with Ben Pring

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How can we unplug ourselves and disconnect from technology addiction? By remaining mindful and limiting the role technology has in our lives, future generations may nurture a more sustainable relationship.

Listen in to learn:

  • How technology forms a stranglehold on your life
  • Some options we have when disconnecting
  • The action which can be taken to help the younger generations

Ben Pring, the Vice President, Head of Thought Leadership, and Managing Director at Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work, shares his insight into technology and why we can all benefit from disconnecting.

While technology has introduced unheard-of miracles in many of our lives, it has also introduced almost incomprehensible challenges to future generations. Since technology offers so many benefits, it has also been incredibly addictive, and it may be just as harmful as others.

Since it may prove difficult to put this proverbial genie back in a bottle, some solutions to curb this effect in future generations will be posed. However, this will be an effort that each and every one of us will need to take seriously, especially in the years to come. 

Search @BenjaminPring on Twitter for more information.

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

Forget frequently as questions.

0:02.0

Common sense, common knowledge, or Google.

0:05.0

How about advice from a real genius?

0:07.0

95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license.

0:11.0

5%?

0:12.0

Go above and beyond.

0:13.0

They become very good at what they do.

0:15.0

But only 0.1% are real geniuses.

0:18.0

Richard Jacobs has made his life's mission to find them for you.

0:22.0

He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field.

0:25.0

Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more.

0:28.0

Here come the geniuses.

0:30.0

This is the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:33.0

The Richard Jacobs.

0:35.0

Before we begin, a note from our sponsor.

0:40.0

I'm Richard Jacobs, Executive Director of the Nonprofit Finding Genius Foundation,

0:44.0

and host of the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:46.0

In late 2016, I was rear-ended at 65 miles an hour by a truck on the highway,

0:52.0

which sent me off-road into a ditch.

0:54.0

The impact of the collision gave me a concussion and other injuries.

0:58.0

At the hospital, a CT scan showed that I had thyroid nodules, which turned out to be cancer.

1:03.0

It was then when I had a biopsy my neck that I realized, even if I was a million there,

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