What 95 Minutes of Phone Time a Day Does to Us

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Prepare for our week of Bored and Brilliant challenges with a peek at the data we're gathering on how much you use your phone and what you want to change. Plus, a psychologist and neuroscientist put it all in context with tips for behavior change.

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0:00.0	Hello friend, this is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New Text City.
0:07.0	Same good content, just the old name. Enjoy.
0:14.0	From WNYC, this is New Text City, where digital gets personal.
0:18.0	I'm Anouche Summerodi, and here are some of the people who have signed up for our board and brilliant project.
0:27.0	I'm using the phone anywhere from two to four hours a day.
0:30.0	I unlock the screen at average 65 times a day. That's a lot.
0:33.0	I've spent about average an hour on my phone.
0:36.0	The first five days after I set my limit at two hours, I was egregiously over it every day.
0:42.0	During the week, that number she's up to somewhere between two hours to up to three hours.
0:47.0	I want to wrestle back my time.
0:50.0	Elay Mendo, Holly Beck, Danielle Shroyer, Stefan Schveznikoff, and James Green.
0:56.0	And over 12,000 other people have signed up to rethink their relationship to their smartphone
1:02.0	and hopefully jumpstart your creativity as part of the board and brilliant project.
1:08.0	So to prepare ourselves for next week when we are actually doing a week of challenges,
1:14.0	six days in a row when we have a task for you to try and complete.
1:17.0	It's going to be fun and get you thinking.
1:19.0	But first, on this episode, we're going to give you an early preview of the data that we've been getting from you
1:26.0	and stories from other participants about what their goals are.
1:30.0	And we're also going to get the latest research from two people joining us for this episode.
1:35.0	Dr. Scott Berry-Kaufman is Scientific Director of the Imagination Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:42.0	And he's on the line from Philadelphia.
1:44.0	Hi, Scott.
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