What podcasts say about Sahar Yousef
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What Sahar Yousef has said on podcasts
46 statements · 14 positive · 22 negative · 2 mixed · 8 neutral
Switching attention imposes a cost each time.
“Every single time you switch your attention, you pay for it.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 0:00
Knowledge workers waste over two hours daily switching screens and tasks.
“over two hours a day is the average now of how much time is being wasted, bouncing between screens and different tasks.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 0:24
Excessive short-form content harms mood, attention, and cognitive performance.
“If we have too much short form, your attention span is shot, you literally feel shittier, and your brain operates. at a lower level.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:16
Focus sprints can double output relative to ordinary work.
“a focus sprint to help people to do up to two times as much as they would otherwise do.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:30
The brain continually changes, evolves, and adapts.
“the brain is constantly changing and evolving and adapting”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 7:23
Knowledge workers focus on one screen for about 47 seconds on average.
“47 seconds is the average amount of time a knowledge worker stays focused on one screen before another one distracts him.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 10:28
Sleeping under seven hours harms cognitive performance and emotional regulation.
“When you don't get enough sleep, and mind you, that's a minimum of seven hours a night. If you're not getting enough sleep, it's impacting your cognitive performance, your emotional regulation.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 13:57
Attention is necessary for memory formation.
“you cannot remember anything that you do not attend to.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 15:45
Sustained attention has declined linearly since modern digital technology emerged.
“attention spans, our ability to sustain attention, has been linearly decreasing since the advent of this thing.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 16:03
Digital defaults prioritize engagement over organizational productivity.
“The default setting that your phone comes with, the default setting of every single app that you download on that phone of yours, the default setting of email, of any messaging software that all of our teams use, the default setting is there to maximize engagement, not to make your company more productive.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 18:50
Phone vibration features are optimized to increase user engagement and addiction.
“the vibrate functionality that you feel in your phone has been highly optimized by people like me to keep you obsessed with the thing and addicted to the thing to increase your engagement on the platform.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 20:10
Users should configure VIP notifications across communication tools.
“I would recommend setting up what I call VIP notifications in both your phone, your inbox, every single different communication software.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 22:08
Distractions currently diminish humanity’s intellectual potential.
“all the brilliance of humanity is currently being sucked away by these distractions.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 29:04
Phones provide a fast, inexpensive escape from uncomfortable reality.
“what our phones have done for us is created an exit. a very fast, cheap exit to reality.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 31:19
Big tech copied the food industry’s addiction framework nearly identically.
“My humble belief is that it's the exact same three-part framework and it's the playbook was copied nearly identically.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 33:11
Intermittent variable rewards produce greater human addiction than consistent rewards.
“Human beings, believe it or not, do not love consistent reward. We become more addicted when it's in fact intermittent and somewhat variable.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 38:21
Spending more time on social platforms is associated with greater loneliness.
“the longer you spend on these apps and on these platforms, the lonelier you are.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 41:29
Excessive short-form content increases depression, anxiety, and attention problems.
“If we have too much short form, we already know this. You're more depressed. You're more anxious. Your attention span is shot.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 48:43
People should reintroduce portion control into digital content consumption.
“one of the best things that you can do is actually to aim it. is to introduce portion control back into how you are consuming content.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 52:04
Digital self-regulation should be taught in schools.
“I think this ought to be taught in schools.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 53:14
Most important daily tasks should be limited to one to three items.
“Your MITs or your most important tasks are the one, two, maximum three things on any given day that you would want to accomplish if you want your day to be a success.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:01:22
Important business and life progress usually comes from slow-dopamine tasks.
“the things that push our businesses forward, the things that push our lives forward are typically here to the right. They're the slow dopamine bits.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:03:18
Removing obstacles is more effective than adding resources for increasing focus.
“The best way to increase the signal or to get to X, whatever it may be. is to remove obstacles as opposed to adding.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:17:48
Visible time markers cause people to work faster.
“if we see time ticking by, we will just work faster.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:20:16
Exposure to nature provides the most restorative break.
“the best kind of break is, in fact, no surprise there, being exposed to nature.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:27:25
TikTok-style scrolling is the least restorative type of break.
“the worst break was TikTok-style scrolling.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:27:47
Reading and writing do not rest the brain’s cognitive systems.
“Reading, writing, arithmetic. Like the point is to rest this thing.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:28:35
Repeated rumination strengthens the associated neural network.
“If you keep doing that, you're just deepening and deepening that neural network.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:34:31
Repeatedly attending to a neural network strengthens its activation.
“whichever one you feed will in fact become stronger and louder.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:36:13
MITs and LITs define what work should be done.
“If we said that the MITs and the LITs that we talked about before, that represents the what.”
Open the episode · Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefListen at 1:37:44
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