Christine Rosen
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first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Jun
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Have times of day where you check that phone or check your email and be deliberate about that. very difficult to do, especially if you're a parent with young kids who you're kind of coordinating things. I understand that. So my second bit of advice, if you can't go totally grayscale, is to practice a little experiment.
And I experimented on myself with this, and I still try to do this as often as possible. Instead of picking up your phone in those interstitial moments of time throughout your day, when you're waiting at a stoplight, when you're waiting in line at school pickup to get your kids, when you're waiting for a meeting to start in the office, Don't pick up your phone. Do something else.
If you're in your car, take a deep breath. Look around outside, listen to some music, something. Don't go for that phone. Or what I've started doing, and it's been a great pleasure, is carrying a book around with me again, which I always used to do. And the phone at some point replaced my book, but now I'm reading more.
The overwhelming effect when you do that is you start to notice how often you reach for your phone out of habit. And when you don't do that, how much, for me, it's just I remember things throughout the day better. I remember little details. I observe more. And it's heartening to think that these tiny little habits actually can lead to a better sense of well-being.
So I would say grayscale your phone and try for 24 hours not to pick up your phone in those interstitial moments of time and see how you feel at the end of that day.
The first takeaway is that the gold standard for human interaction is being face to face, being with each other in person, giving each other attention, looking each other in the eyes, reading our weird facial expressions, all of that.
And although all of us have to mediate some of our interactions now because of the way our lives work, we should still actively seek out those moments where we can be with each other in each other's physical presence. The second takeaway is that we should try to cultivate more look up experiences, not look down experiences.
So when you're out in the world, try not to look down at your phone all the time. Look up, look around you, notice things, try to cultivate a new way of attention, cultivating your own attention rather than allowing a technological device to constantly capture it. And finally, every new thing is not necessarily an improvement.
And I think we live in a culture that is extraordinarily powerful at giving us these tools that can make things more efficient and convenient, and they're incredible tools. But not every new tool makes us better as human beings. So when we think about bringing a new tool into our homes, into our family life, in some cases, like as sensors on our bodies, in our pockets all day,
We should ask first, is this going to encourage the values in the way I want to live my life? Is it going to be good for my family? And answer those questions first. Every new thing that comes your way isn't necessarily going to improve what you value in your life and particularly in your family life.
Thanks so much, Lynn. I enjoyed the conversation. Thank you.
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