Adam Grant

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2,364 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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ReThinking · Why a digital detox won’t reset your attention span with Gloria Mark · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

So one do you buy that premise? matched

Two, if that is the case, does that mean we actually need to lower the bar and and and get especially students and young people to stop expecting everything to be interesting? matched

It seems that there are some movements cropping up that are trying to reset this a little bit. matched

I think the for sure the weirdest one that I've seen was I've spent some time in Norway and you've probably seen the slow TV movement there, where they actually televise a nine hour train ride or a five day boat trip and the entire thing. matched

Is is filmed and shown and people will sit and watch it. matched

And I don't I mean that's that's a bridge too far for me, no pun intended. matched

But I wonder is the appeal of of something like that, people saying, I just wanna sit with and experience something continuous, something that's not a constant attention switch. matched

So I want to talk about what to do with our relationship with our devices because I think from the work that you've done, it's pretty clear that we have a hard time managing our devices and end up getting managed by them. matched

And I think you pointed out that there are a few myths that make this worse, or that subscribing to a few myths makes it harder for us to have healthy relationships with our devices and manage our attention effectively. matched

So I'd love to walk through the myths with you and just have you talk a little bit about and riff a little bit about what do we do if we reject them. matched

So as I understand it, the first myth is that when we're on a device, a computer matched

computer primarily, I guess, we should always be focused and we should feel guilty if we're not. matched

You don't agree. matched

You know, I think this reframes how I think about my own writing routine. matched

Um, I think my ideal writing day is one where I start writing the moment that our kids leave for school and I stop the minute they get home. matched

And you know, for a long time I thought about that as, okay, I'm really laser focused on deep work. matched

But when I actually pay attention to what I do as a writer. matched

I take constant breaks. matched

Only the breaks are just different tasks that are part of the writing process. matched

Yeah. matched

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