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Good Life Project

Walking in the Rain | Screen-time and Happiness.

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Burned-out, overwhelmed? Try walking in the rain.

We've all been there. That place where it feels like it's just too much. Too much work, too much stimulation, too much stress, too much expectation, too much to deliver in too little time, too much change, too much anger, vitriol, outrage. For many, it leads to overwhelm, stress, burnout and sadness.

So, what do you do about that? Many things, and it's different for everyone. But, today, we're talking about something really simple. The power of solitude, nature and movement. And, just for the fun, there's even a little poetry mixed in.

Good Life Science Update. Screen-time and happiness, oh my. This is one of those things we love to hear, and hate to hear. We all want science to back up our decision to rail against more screen-time. But, then, secretly, we don't really want to give up on our devices. Well, a new study that crunched the data from more than one-million teens revealed something pretty powerful.

There is actually a specific amount of daily screen-time that serves as a "happiness threshold." Push past it, happiness plummets. Steer clear of it, happiness rules. That's we're talking about in this week's Good Life Science Update. And, as always, for those who want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.

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0:00.0

So pretty safe bet that at some point in your life, you are going to face burnout.

0:09.2

It could be from work, it could be personal, it could be political, societal, but it's

0:15.1

going to weigh on you.

0:16.8

And there's a really interesting relationship between, in my mind, between burnout and

0:21.5

solitude and how they dance with each other.

0:23.8

And it's something that I dance with on a regular basis.

0:27.2

I move between those two states and I wanted to kind of just share a recent experience

0:32.5

with both of them with you in today's ref.

0:34.9

Along with that in our science update, some really interesting new research on screen time

0:41.6

happiness and those teenage years.

0:46.4

But it's equally relevant to us grownups.

0:48.9

There's a remarkable threshold where screen time starts to make a really big incremental

0:56.3

difference in your happiness.

0:58.0

So that's where we're going today on Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.

1:07.2

So today, today, today, today, today.

1:10.1

As I sit here and record this, it is a rainy day in New York City.

1:16.4

In the middle of winter, it's unseasonably warm outside.

1:20.7

So what did I decide to do?

1:23.6

Work up.

1:24.6

I did my morning meditation.

1:26.4

And then instead of heading over to the gym today or instead of diving into work, I grabbed

1:33.6

an umbrella.

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