Dr. Jason Fung

Now that was actually unimaginable.

Like honestly, like in the 70s, completely unimaginable.

Eating food at your desk would have been like, wow, what are you doing, right?

So what happens, of course, is that now you've got distracted eating.

You're eating, but you're barely tasting your food.

So you really, when you don't taste your food, you don't even recognize if you're full or you're not full because you're not even paying attention, right?

You're paying attention to the Excel spreadsheet or whatever you're doing, right?

So in other countries, of course, that's just not an issue because they're not working in front of their screens, right?

Because it's not sort of socially acceptable to do that.

So perhaps in some countries, that's just not something you do.

You eat with other people at a table sort of thing, right?

So we can still do that, but then we have to take that extra step and say, okay, well, let's add that extra mind.

We have to add that extra mindfulness step

Because we have a situation where you certainly could be in front of your computer doing work for different reasons.

There's a big deadline or whatever, but now you have to pay extra attention to be mindful.

Whereas the person, you know, in Italy, who's like, you know, living la dolce vita and just having a great time, but not working, you know, like dogs, right?

Well, maybe he doesn't have to do this mindfulness because it's just not an issue for him, right?

It doesn't mean that one's right and one's wrong.

Our society is always gonna change, right?

But that means we need to change the tools.