Dr. Faye Begetti

And if I explain a bit,

But what I mean by that is that if you, let's say, commute to work and you listen to a podcast, that's an hour of screen time.

If you do a workout using an app on your phone, that's another hour of screen time.

If you speak to somebody, the screen time adds up.

So I think it's more important to think about what you're doing, where and why you're doing it.

And

A big part of what comes up in the scientific research is intentionality, to be really intentional with your time.

And what many people find problematic is those unintentional short automatic checks that they do.

So I've been writing and researching this book for over four years, reading scientific studies, and that's given me a really great opportunity to look at and analyze people's behavior.

And actually, it is a very, very tiny minority that are actually with people and on their phone.

I find that not to be the case at all.

And I think if you do see that,

what happens is that our brain tends to have something called a confirmation bias, where if we worry about something, if we think about something a lot, then we're more likely to notice it in our environment.

So we're not objective observers of the world.

We are very, very subjective.

And some really good examples to do with that, that if you buy a car, suddenly all you see on the road is cars of the same make and model because it relates to you and your thoughts and your opinions and what kind of car you have.

So I think part of what we might see, you know, when we see young people is,

It's somewhat a judgment call, and it reflects many people's opinions and our concerns about technology.

Yes, I think we are overly concerned.

I think we got very, very excited when technology was released and we were very, very pro-technology.