BITESIZE | How Your Smartphone Is Changing Your Brain, Focus & Mental Health | Dr Anders Hansen #657
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 381 of the podcast with psychiatrist and author, Dr. Anders Hansen. In this clip, he explains how our attention has become one of the most valuable commodities in today's world. why our devices are designed to keep us hooked.
And he shares some simple ways we can begin to take back control and reconnect with what really matters. The most valuable thing in today's society is not gold or yen or euros or pounds, it's human attention. And a number of companies have been incredibly good at grabbing that attention. If you try to find the the customer service on Facebook, you realize that it's very hard. And that's because you are not the customer of Facebook.
You are the product. Every second that we spent on our screens is money for them. And they had just gotten better and better and better. at doing that. And as a consequence, we spend more and more and more time on our screens.
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