I know links to long YouTube videos aren’t ideal for platforms like Lemmy, but I thought this was an exceptionally sincere and constructive talk. There’s analysis and solutions for screen addiction. The journalist seems to really know what she’s talking about.
The main thing I got from this was insightful validation: It’s helpful to delineate problematic use from non-problematic use. They discuss the brain patterns that lead to device “addiction” and more importantly, the behaviours that can get us out of it.
Anyway, I learned a lot and saw clearly many of the traps I fall into which was helpful.
I’ll put the TOC here below. I don’t know either of these people and have never heard of them before.
- 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
- 1:06:28 Highest Impact Habits To Help With Phone Use
- 1:13:13 Where To Find Catherine
You may want edit it and use bullet points by starting each line with
-<SPACE>. Formatting is based on CommonMark.That works, thank you! I had tried formatting as code and as a quote but didn’t get good results with either so I left it as plain text in the end. I did as you suggested just now and it’s much better.