#134 - Daniel Sih: The Fracturing of Our Focus & How to Reclaim It in the Age of Distraction

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Lawrence Dunning

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It's always a pleasure to talk to my friend Daniel Sih, Productivity Coach & Concerned Dad. As a professional as well as a father of three, he sees first hand what technology is doing to our attention spans as well as how it's impacting the youth of today.

This week Daniel is launching “Spacemakers” a youtube series on how to regain out focus

“Technology wears it's benefits on its sleeve, while its drawbacks are buried deep within.”

0.00: Daniel’s Background and when he realized he wanted to live an intentional a life

7.00: Figuring out what is the career path that we should follow

13.30: The realization that “time” is the ultimate currency

20.00: Losing focus with the distraction of ubiquitous use of cell phones

30.30: Losing business to maintain your sanity (in tech dominated professions)

36.15: How online time is “practicing” time being distracted by technology

43.30: How to protect your children from an overabundance of technology

50.00: Why we cannot use the Tribe as a barometer for kids and technology

56.00: Why our fondest memoires of youth always involve people and nature

1.08.00: Why community is so important

Learn more about Daniel and the great work he is doing:

https://www.spacemakers.au/podcast

https://www.youtube.com/@Daniel_Sih

Until next time, love and good vibes.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:18.0	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your
0:24.4	so nice to see again and I cannot wait to talk about the fracturing of the attention span
0:29.4	and what we can do to improve our focus because I know speaking for myself and definitely for the people
0:34.2	that I hang around with we are all struggling with this this is a real apropos topic for
0:39.1	today.
0:40.1	Oh sorry I wasn't concentrating what were you saying no just joking hey No, just joking. Hey, it's really good to be. It's just really good to be here, Lawrence.
0:45.4	Thanks for having me back on the show. So Daniel, obviously I know, you know, we've
0:50.1	spoken a few times, I know about about your backstory but what were you doing even
0:53.6	before you wrote your first book about making space and and the problems with
0:57.7	technology what what is your background? Yeah that's probably good to go back
1:01.4	coming I've done I think one or two interviews with you over time.
1:05.0	I reached out because I just enjoy talking with you so much to be honest and it's a good excuse to catch up.
1:10.0	So like I used to be a physiotherapist, that was my first career. I think you might call them physical therapists in the States. And you know I became a clinician. I worked with lots of different patients, you know with amputees, with Vietnam vets doing
1:24.8	psychological physiotherapy you know and then outpatients which people would be
1:30.1	aware of and then moved into management and and what was interesting is becoming a manager. I ended up having, I think, 17 health sites, you know, multiple staff, the kind of middle management churn of like 100 hundred emails being squeezed from the top and the sides and below.
1:46.0	And I really like it. Like I really enjoyed being a manager as opposed to a clinician.
1:50.0	But I started to realize that the types of skills needed to lead well when you're
1:55.4	leading people or when you're leading organizations is completely different
1:58.6	than what I learned as a physio. Like I studied anatomy and physiology and
2:02.3	kinesiology and then I found myself basically spending a third of my day on emails
2:07.2	dealing with messages and meetings and people problems and strategy.
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