1KHO 76: We are Humans, And We Need to Fight For Our Humanity | Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, Digital Madness | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, S3 E49

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is an Ivy League educated psychologist, best-selling author, internationally renowned speaker and an expert on mental health, addiction, and the impacts of our digital age. We spoke last year in season two about his phenomenal book Glow Kids that came out in 2016 where he lays the case that technology is habit-forming. At the time it was ground-breaking and controversial though now it has been established that we live in an "attention economy" and that our devices very much operate like digital slot machines. Launching this week is a brand new book by Kardaras and per usual it is cutting edge and eye-opening. Digital Madness looks at what addictive technology and habituation is doing to our society. You don't want to miss this episode! There's so much in here I don't even know where to begin. Kardaras is an addiction specialist and he has the answers that we need with the metaverse on the horizon and at a unique time in history when depression is outpacing prescriptions. Digital Madness is a total page turner! Check it out here: https://amzn.to/3dgB2Mn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Urich and so fortunate to be sitting
0:07.2	across for the second time from Nicholas Carderis. Welcome.
0:11.1	Thank you, Jenny. Nice to be on the show. Thank you. We connected last year over your book that you wrote in 2016 called glow kids, how screen addiction is hijacking our kids and how to break the trans.
0:23.4	It's one of our most downloaded episodes to date and it has so many impactful things in it.
0:30.2	And just six years later, you have come out with a new book called Digital Madness,
0:35.0	how social media is driving our mental health crisis and how to restore our sanity.
0:40.0	And it was so interesting to have read both books and to see such a stark difference.
0:46.2	How much has changed in six years?
0:49.6	Just six years.
0:50.6	Did you feel that way?
0:51.6	Well, you know, very much so when I wrote glow kids, the battle then, the uphill battle then was to really essentially convince people that our technology can be habit forming, right, and that we can get addicted to our
1:06.4	tech that our love for our technology was potentially and healthy especially for children,
1:12.4	and I really sort of try to put all the
1:14.3	clinical research together to show wait a second our shiny devices might be impacting
1:19.0	our kids we as the adults were all so smitten by our smartphones in our shining tech that we weren't
1:25.3	realizing maybe this was not not all the glitters is gold sort of thing and in that you know been
1:32.3	there done that because now that's been an accepted clinical disorder.
1:37.0	I think we won that battle where people I think do realize, even with everything from the social dilemma,
1:42.0	documentaries where the people that are behind the curtain
1:46.4	pulled back the curtain and said, oh yeah, yeah,
1:48.4	this is habit forming by design.
1:51.2	But now the larger question was is what is this habituation to our society?
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -849 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ginny Yurich, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ginny Yurich and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.