How To Defeat Your Social Media Addiction - Catherine Price - #921
March 29, 2025
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How To Defeat Your Social Media Addiction - Catherine Price - #921
Summary
Catherine Price is a journalist, science writer, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone.
How much are our phones affecting our brains? Our attention spans seem to be getting shorter, and many of us feel more forgetful. So how much of this can we blame on our phones and what can we do to fix it?
Expect to learn how many hours a day people spend on their phone, what phones do to our attention span, if Tik tok memory brain is real, the real impact this kind of cellphone usage is doing to our brains and how it changes your focus and much more…
Timestamps:
(00:00) The Hours We Spend Daily On Our Phones
(04:31) Effective Ways We Can Reduce Time On Our Phones
(09:06) Why Phones Can Cause A Decrease In Our Attention Spans
(16:17) Do Dopamine Detoxes Work?
(26:34) What Are Phones Doing To Our Memory?
(30:34) How Screentime Can Effect Our Perception Of Time
(38:30) The Impact Phone's Have On Our Happiness, Health And Relationships
(44:50) Predictions For How AI Is Going To Change Each Aspect Of Our Life
(56:22) Fundamental Changes That Are Happening Due To Our Use Of Screens
(01:06:28) Highest Impact Habits To Help With Phone Use
(01:13:13) Where To Find Catherine
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