A Podcast!
Do you listen to podcasts yet? If not, I highly recommend! The above link will take you to a podcast that is hosted by Yale Professor Dr. Laurie Santos. She taught the most popular class in Yale’s history, usually called ‘The Happiness Class’ and her podcast ‘The Happiness Lab’ has a lot of helpful information for anyone, whether or not you’re currently struggling.
The episode above gives 10 tips for managing our relationship with devices and details for ‘how to’. In the episode, she interviews Amy Blankson, the Chief Evangalist of the Digital Wellness Institute Masa, who says:
“We know that with our digital technology that 50% of the time we pick up our phone nobody’s actually called or messaged us. We’re picking it up because the need to be needed is actually highly addictive. Follow that up by the fact that the second time you reach for your phone, fifty percent of the time, it’s within 2 minutes of picking it up the first time. So as the day rolls on, we are literally reaching for our devices constantly, and the downside of that is that we’re a little bit less connected with other people in our lives. We’re less productive, we’re making more errors, we’re feeling less happy about the way we interact with the world around us.”
To hear her 10 tips, give this episode a listen! And share it with your parents. They for sure need to hear it. ;)