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EPISODE · Mar 29, 2025 · 1H 17M

How To Defeat Your Social Media Addiction - Catherine Price - #921

from Modern Wisdom · host Chris Williamson

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 Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount & free shipping on Manscaped’s shavers at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM20) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Catherine’s SubStack: https://catherineprice.substack.com/ Website: https://catherineprice.com/ Book: https://tinyurl.com/tnrfk84m Instagram: @catherinepriceofficial LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/catherinepriceofficial BlueSky: @catherine-price Twitter/X: @catherine_price TikTok: @catherinepriceofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@catherinepriceofficial Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount & free shipping on Manscaped’s shavers at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM20) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Catherine’s SubStack: https://catherineprice.substack.com/ Website: https://catherineprice.com/ Book: https://tinyurl.com/tnrfk84m Instagram: @catherinepriceofficial LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/catherinepriceofficial BlueSky: @catherine-price Twitter/X: @catherine_price TikTok: @catherinepriceofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@catherinepriceofficial Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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