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Well, Hey everybody.

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Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again.

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Welcome back my friend.

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Has a lot more for you then often
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Friends, we are on day three
of a three-day process.

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If you haven't listened to the previous
two days, what have you been doing?

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You have missed an extravaganza.

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Of content.

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For those good people that
have been listening, we've

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discussed everything from.

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Middle ages, cosmology to
coyotes in San Francisco.

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Over the last two days.

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Go back and check it at all.

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They're not making it up.

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I am doing this three-day process
because I felt in my planning phase that.

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Many of us are struggling with
overwhelm, anxiety, stress, depression.

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As our world gets more complex.

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So this three-part series was looking at.

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Weakened social connections.

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We looked at social connections on day
one second day yesterday, we looked

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at a weakened level of exposure to
nature and why that's really important.

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And today friends.

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And let's talk briefly about the impact
of technology on and sort of the impact

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of increased technological complexity.

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You know, I'm talking about, you
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social media life, where we are
just transfixed by little glowing

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screens for large parts of the day.

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No judgment.

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Not judging anybody.

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Because it's a, no matter how
disciplined you are, it can be so hard.

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I said to my daughter the
other day, You know, she's 15.

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And I said no.

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And I said, always remember
that these, these apps.

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Uh, devised by some of the world's most
brilliant behavioral psychologists.

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And design, you know, people that are
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user interfaces and user experiences.

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So it is no surprise that even the strong
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have our lives progressively hijacked.

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By texts.

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So a little bit of data for
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I did a bunch of research and
according to a large study at UCLA.

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University of California, Los
Angeles is one of the world's

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preeminent research universities.

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The average person, one of the
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world spends, wait for it.

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Drum roll, please.

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Uh, seven hours and 11 minutes
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You heard that right?

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Seven hours and 11 minutes
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That works out to second drum,
roll a third of your life.

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He third of your life.

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Maybe we can contextualize that by
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thinking about when we get to the
end of our lives and we suddenly go.

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I just wasted a third of it,
staring at a small screen.

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Again, no judgment.

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I mean, we all struggle, right.

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But on those incredible numbers,
seven hours, 11 minutes a day.

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Some of you will be less.

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Some of you could even be more.

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Third of our lives.

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The other interesting thing is I lead
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argued that we are presented with
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Of data per day.

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Which is the equivalent
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Would book.

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A hundred thousand word book.

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Of content and data coming
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So I would like to give you
a couple of frameworks here.

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The first thing that I wrote down was
this, I think it sounds really good.

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It says this biology changes glacially.

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Technology changes exponentially.

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One more time.

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Biology changes, glacially technology
changes exponentially, which means what.

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If you're a regulation that, you
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time that the bodies we inhabit.

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Uh, we're about 350,000 years old.

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The last significant
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Into what we are called these
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was about 350,000 years ago.

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So our bodies and our brains
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Over the last 350,000 years.

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If you went back 350,000 years, you
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sapiens had pretty much the same body
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So biology changes, glacially.

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But of course, I think we can all agree
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So, what does it mean?

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It means we've got these bodies that still
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But we have brains that are
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of technological complexity.

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So one of the things that I came
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especially around social media.

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This is the big one, right?

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For so many people that, uh, There was
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almost everybody's familiar with FOMO, of
course, standing for fear of missing out.

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So the basic process with social
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we spend huge amounts of time.

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Looking directly into the lives of people.

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We don't know.

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And we'll probably never meet.

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And at some level often thinking
that wouldn't our lives be awesome.

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If we just looked like them
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they lived said what they said.

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Uh, it's understandable.

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Right?

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W we, we compare as a species.

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We look at all these images and we
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If I had that push, I
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That's why I think Tony Robbins is
really great because he says the number

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of billionaires that he's worked with
that are just completely miserable.

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Now I agree that if you're going
to be miserable doing it in a.

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You know, a hundred million dollar mansion
is probably more bearable than doing it.

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In a Tony.

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Uh, you know, apartment somewhere.

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So what's the old saying that
being rich doesn't make you happy,

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but it makes being miserable.

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Bearable.

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But it's just interesting tonight that
many of us seem to think that that most

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of our problems could just be solved
if we had what somebody else had.

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And of course,

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Social media serves that up for
us on a massive daily basis.

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But this FOMO, this comparison
engine that I talk about sometimes.

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Is psychologically associated with
lower mood, lower life satisfaction.

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And interestingly, it's not associated
with age because a lot of people think,

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well, let's just teenage kids, right.

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They're just looking all this
stuff and they get denied.

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You know, they get upset and
they get low self esteem.

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The research says it is actually
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There's a, there's a
negative correlation to age.

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So basically it affects everybody.

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You can be in.

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Yes.

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40 50, 60 seventies beyond and
still look at stuff and think,

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oh gosh, I haven't achieved that.

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I don't own that.

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Or I didn't do that.

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And it's also, this is
religious in cross-cultural.

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It's not just the developed world.

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It's a human thing.

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It's across all cultures.

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That this living with this, all
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Affects us all.

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Uh, just quickly in children, the
research on social media addiction

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and technological addiction.

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Listen to these if associated with
low academic performance, lack of

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attention, low creativity, delays
in language development, delays in

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social emotional development, physical
inactivity and obesity, poor sleep,

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quality, social anxiety, aggressive
behavior addiction to technology itself.

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That actual addictive behaviors.

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And higher BMI, higher body mass index.

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You know, a few weeks ago, I was
talking to these young people and I

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may have mentioned this on a previous
episode, but they were telling me.

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That most of them have flat
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The parents have raised the white flag
and hand that over in flat screen TV.

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And some of these kids are telling me
that they really into the horror genre.

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And, you know, Have you, if you've
noticed this it's the so much of that

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content being cranked out through Netflix
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But what they were saying is that
most of the Macado going into their

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rooms at 10:00 PM on a school night.

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And watching like w like incredibly
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midnight 1:00 AM and then falling
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times and falling asleep at 2:00 AM.

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So, not only are they
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But just the sleep patterns
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So.

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You know, this is not a
doom and gloom episode.

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This isn't just.

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I'm not saying we need to just get
rid of everything, but I think we

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can probably agree that unless it's
very carefully managed for most of

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us, this technological technological
complexity can be quite overwhelming.

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I guess we're going to ask yourself
is isn't a net benefit, right?

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Is it a net benefit?

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I can probably look into my own
life and say in January, yes.

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I'm going to talk a little bit about.

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You know, my approach.

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I much to my own detriment.

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I slowly got rid of basically all social
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I still have, but.

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I've already is I just
slowly backed off it.

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And if I use it again, I'll
have a team managing it for me.

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So I won't be having to
deal with it all the time.

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So I'm somebody that has walked it
back and walked it back and walked

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it back deliberately, consistently.

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Tried to use it less and less.

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You know, on a tangent, something,
you know, that, um, you know,

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I've got an obsession with sleep.

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The last few years, I've been really big
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And, you know, so I don't
use devices in the evenings.

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I'm with my kids.

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I'm like, no, we, we shut them
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Nobody's on devices after that time.

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And, uh, just setting a culture
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adapt to the, to the sleep windows
that we need them to adapt to.

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So practically.

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Let's talk about some action steps here.

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So if you listen to this going,
you know what, you're right.

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I'm using it too much.

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It has, it is having such an effect.

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What do I do?

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I would begin by offering you this.

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Can you possibly consider.

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Building into your life dedicated
on building into your life.

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A dedicated, ongoing commitment.

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To deliberate times of
silence and stillness.

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See what I think the technological
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that it's an overwhelm problem.

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It's like, it's just, we're never off.

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Right.

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It's just reading this new site and
then chicken socials and then this

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email and then that thing and that
thing and that thing and that thing.

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So few of us have disciplines of
real times of stillness and quiet.

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So I spent a lot of time in
my hometown, the city here.

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In the cathedral here.

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I'd probably try to get there
most days because it's just such

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a beautiful building and it's
so quiet and dark and still.

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Uh, try to get in there most days.

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Uh, as I said in yesterday's episode,
most days I'm up around 4:00 AM.

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I have these training runs, training
walks, cycling, trying to get out.

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And even now I've been backing off
having headphones on when I'm training.

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Just to allow my, my own thinking to.

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To unfold.

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So if you do not currently have
dedicated times of silence and

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stillness fringe, this is a discipline.

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Many of you listening
might go to a gym, right?

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You'll occasionally or regularly go
to a gym because it's a discipline.

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It's like you recognize
that your physical.

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Body is an important thing.

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You want to invest in it, but our
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wellbeing also requires discipline.

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Having experiences and times where we,
uh, disconnected from technology itself.

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And I get the RNE of me saying that
while recording a podcast for you

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to listen to on a digital device.

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Sorry about that, but I'm
hoping that it's good content.

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That's going to help you to grow.

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Uh, I also would offer you the practical
step of deliberate attention often

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said to people wherever you are, be all
there, wherever you are, be all there.

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This relates to what I
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I don't know how many of you use brown
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Most music apps, Spotify,
apple music, Google music.

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Uh, YouTube, if you type in brown
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that white noise was a thing, but
apparently brown noise is much better.

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I think I first came across this
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Princeton university who does three,
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And in those four hour blocks,
he's headphones with brown

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noise and I use it all the time.

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So.

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But I'm not in the studio in
the office or doing other stuff.

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I actually spent a fair bit of
time at the national library.

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We're here in Australia and I've
got these really good headphones.

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I use brown noise generators.

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And I'm increasingly not taking
digital devices to the library.

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So not taking a laptop and
hoping to get in there tomorrow.

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I won't be taking a laptop.

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May not even take my phone.

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One of my daughters comes
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And, you know, I'm figure if the house
burns down that Karen will text her.

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And I w I don't need a phone.

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So I use.

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Which case I take in books
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study and read and take notes.

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With the brown noise generator.

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So it's a deliberate time of single
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So there's some of the practical stuff.

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And I just think, you know, learning to
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And I can remember looking back.

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I used to get up early as a sign.

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I know I'd sort of read news
websites and, you know, look, I'll

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be really honest since my, I don't
read any mainstream media now.

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I don't trust it.

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So I don't read any of it.

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Um, I read a lot of sub stack.

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I read a lot of high-end, you know, A lot
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and these are really good journalists.

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Who've got across the sub stack.

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So I try to get my news through.

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A mix of intelligent.

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You know, high quality journalism.

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So I've learned to just stop
time-wasting on clickbait.

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So if you find yourself clicking on
this thing and you know, kind of be

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honest with you, I'm going to lose a
couple of lists and see, but I don't

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get the whole Royal family thing.

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I don't get it.

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You know?

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I don't get it.

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It's like.

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People that just you've read it, all
these stories about hairy admitting.

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I'm going to really like, come on.

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There was so many great figures
of history and incredible women

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and women doing great stuff.

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And so many people are just like,
click, buy it off to click buy.

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This is your life.

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This is your life.

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It's precious.

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Why squander it on?

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Less than crucially important
things, you know, anyway.

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Just lost a few listeners.

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I'm sorry.

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Love you.

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Please.

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Come back someday.

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But I just think that we're given this
one precious life and I'm learning.

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To approach it with a sense
of deliberateness and urgency.

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And I think maybe here's a summary
technology has to serve you, right.

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It has to serve you.

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And if any aspect of
it is not serving you.

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Then you're okay to move on.

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You're okay.

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To just slowly.

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Oh, I wish I could give you some kind of
X-Factor trickier, but there isn't one.

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It's just, I think where I've got to is.

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Looking at what's important in life,
which for me is like, Living well,

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living intelligently reading the great
books, you know, being present to the

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people that I love being physically well.

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Being deliberate about my life.

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You know, I talk a lot about
the influence of someone like

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David Goggins has had on me.

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And one of his quotes, it pops up every
day on my computer and my phone pops up.

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I've got a few things
that pop up each day.

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And one of them is this
quite racist approach every

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day with a sense of urgency.

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Approach every day with
a sense of urgency.

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And I just think, yeah, you know what?

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I find myself ever goofing off and
wasting time and like, come on, man.

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Seriously, like.

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This doesn't mean I don't enjoy life.

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Like I'm running around all the time.

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Like superintendents,
like I'm an intense dude.

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I always have been, but
I want to live fully.

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I don't want to hand over any
of my time to things that are.

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Uh, not really worthwhile and fulfilling.

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So friends at the end of this
long episode, I'm just saying

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too, if it isn't serving you.

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Then consider what it's places
in your life technology.

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You know, we've got this gift of
this microphone, this computer, this

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internet, where I can put this stuff
together for you guys and send it.

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So let's use the good parts, but let's
start to get tougher and everything else.

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All right, that's it.

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Please make sure you're subscribed.

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Go book yourself a coaching call.

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They are absolutely worth it.

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You are going to get, you know,
some real help for me to grow,

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to move your business forward.

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Your relationships forward
your health forward.

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Gum book yourself a call and we'll
get a dumb, all right, everybody.

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That is it for this three part
series, I've got a whole bunch

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of more great stuff coming.

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Reach out to me, this is a
topic you'd like me to cover.

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Send me an email.

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jonathan@jonathandoyle.co dot C O.

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And I'd love to prepare
something just for you.

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All right, everybody.

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God bless you.

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My name's Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast and you
and I are going to talk again tomorrow.