The Truth About Your Kids and Technology: Exclusive Dad Edge Alliance Q&A with Cal Newport
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We’re just beginning to understand the impact of the internet and smartphones on society. Our time and attention are sucked away, and we look at a screen instead of our real lives. Energy for valuable activities is drained from us and we have nothing left for creative thinking. The long-term effects technology has on our kids’ wellbeing and development is even more alarming, leading to mental health issues and addictive behavior.
Today we have a fascinating conversation with our previous guest, Cal Newport, the author of Digital Minimalism who answers questions live in our Dad Edge Alliance Mastermind. These are answers every parent needs to hear. Don't miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, what's up, Dad Edge Nation? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | I am Larry Hagner. I am your host and founder and welcome to Thursday throwdown |
| 0:38.0 | where you never know exactly what you're going to get. |
| 0:41.0 | Because I always try to keep you guys guessing. |
| 0:43.0 | Sometimes it's just me, just on a riff. |
| 0:45.0 | Sometimes I'm interviewing one of our elite mastermind members. |
| 0:50.0 | And sometimes I just have to share what we call an elite guest speaker |
| 0:54.8 | Q&A in the Alliance and that's what today's show is all about. |
| 0:58.0 | If you don't know what that is, it's when I ask one of our podcast guests to come by |
| 1:02.3 | the Alliance for our Q&A where the Alliance men get to have a live |
| 1:06.4 | up front and direct conversation with people who have been professional athletes, |
| 1:11.1 | New York Times best-selling authors, Navy Seals, and many, many more. |
| 1:16.7 | So today I wanted to share a Q&A that we did with Cal Newport, who is the New York Times best-selling author and has written several books, but he's most known for deep work and digital minimalism. |
| 1:30.0 | Cal was willing to give 60 minutes of his time and come by the Alliance today and share some insights with us as well as for the most part answer some questions and some of the things that the questions were centered around were the unknown |
| 1:44.8 | harmful side effects of too much screen time for our kids and even us. So in |
| 1:51.4 | today's show we talk about how we need to be the example and how we can do that and why screen time is extremely dangerous when it's used for an escape and how we can implement practical boundaries and how we can even use boredom for ourselves and our kids to unlock creative juices. |
| 2:11.0 | Okay, so today is really good. I think you guys will really enjoy it and we'll start the show as soon as I get done |
| 2:18.6 | Updating my Instagram feed and sorry it's been kind of a stressful day, |
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