Ian Bremmer

Oh, yeah.

All the time.

I turn my phone off when I'm in meetings.

I turn my phone off when I'm at meals.

I turn my phone off at night.

My focus, I have three speeds, fast, faster and sleep.

And all three are important.

But those speeds are true intellectually.

They're true emotionally.

They're true physically.

And if I have my phone on during a meeting or during a social meal or in the middle of playing tennis and then check it in the middle of a tennis set, I'm completely distracted because I'll then be all in on that.

So I just shut it off, just shut it off.

But when I have it on, I'm focused on it.

So, and if I have it on and you're talking to me, I'm not paying attention to you.

So for me, it's very much feast or famine when it comes to the phone.

I certainly spend more time on it than I would like,

But knowing that makes me shut it off more.

And that is a helpful thing.

Also, I like the fact that with an iPhone, it actually takes a fair amount of time to turn on an iPhone from scratch.

And that is also useful.