Finding Balance in a Digital World

By: Doreen Dodgen-Magee

Narrated by: Doreen Dodgen-Magee, Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 37 mins

Publisher's summary

How do you know if you’re spending too much time with your devices? Tech tools often enhance our lives and open up possibilities for innovation and connection that would be impossible without them. But constant stimulation from devices can also have harmful effects causing stress, depersonalizing interactions, and impacting productivity. So how do you break technology habits you’ve come to rely on throughout the day to stay connected, both professionally and socially?

Psychologist Doreen Dodgen-Magee shows how to get the most out of technology while letting go of harmful habits and forming positive new behaviors in their place. From creating tech-free zones to clarifying your values and being fully present for your commitments, Dodgen-Magee’s techniques will change how you engage with your devices so you reach for them more purposefully. You’ll learn how to lose the distractions and intentionally form healthy patterns - habits that actually help you achieve your goals.

Key takeaways:  

• Why you need to stop worrying about how much time you’re spending on screens and start thinking about how your values align with your tech use
• Why a few minutes of boredom a day can help you lead a happier, more fulfilled life
• How to set up what Dodgen-Magee calls “fiery experiences” that can help you rewire your brain and reshape your dependency on tech

Doreen Dodgen-Magee is an award-winning author, speaker, and psychologist with more than 25 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She researches and speaks about how technology affects our brains and bodies, our relationships, and the development of our sense of self. She is the author of Deviced!: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World, which was awarded the 2018 Gold Nautilus Prize for psychology.   

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Great message about our tech usage!

This was a thought provoking message about our use of technology on a daily basis. Dr Doreen Dodgen-Magee has clearly researched this topic in a clinical way, but shares the message to be very relatable. I really like the practice tips she has given to implement small changes that encourage us to intentionally relate to others in real life.

amazing

I loved this so much, so sad its so short but its amazing. ill be using this and the steps

Thanks

Very memorable insights... Thanks to all who made this contribution our global society. let us continue to bless one another...

Meaningful advice in a judgement-free zone

Wow! In just half an hour, I learned so much about how I use technology and what it does to my brain. Doreen explains it all in a friendly way and never judges. She gives practical and easy-to-follow advice for being aware of and moderating tech in service of a more fulfilling “real” life. Loved this!

Book review

This was a wonderful book, it provided a great mixture of real life stuff with some research and a gentle, empathetic call to action —loved this book!

Exceptional information

The research provided in this interview is pertinent and relevant to the current dynamics of our society. I have recommended this recording to clients who personally struggle or have friends/ family with addiction symptoms connected to tech. This would be great with a deeper dive.

Practical ideas instead of simple answers

Dr. Dodgen-Magee shares important, researched, information about how technology enhances our lives, and also is designed to keep us watching, looking and scrolling. She presents practical ideas about how to moderate our use and never vilifies tech or our dependence on it. It's necessary part of our lives and rather than take a binary good/bad approach to it, she presents ways of establishing new norms with it that can help us be more resilient and capable in our daily lives. This is well worth a listen and can get us started on a new relationship with tech, and ourselves.

Good material summarized, weird anime voice

Material is obviously taken from more popular material, so she puts an alibi in the beginning.

Sounds like an anime fan who hasn't interacted with real people. Laughing when talking about horrible things that happen to people and it's very creepy/distracting.

She narrates her own book as an interview... sort of? So there's a voice over of somebody talking to give her social value?

What is this supposed to be?

Grow our Love

I deleted my social media 2 days ago after soaking myself in books for the last 3 years. Thomas Edison Auto biography.

to short, poor delivery

somewhat oke content, but a terrible delivery (giggle giggle giggle) and poorly presented (my research this, my research that). not recommended.