2017-05-01
56 分钟Even if you are the most extroverted, boisterous, lovely person that everyone around you wants to be you all the time, you will have moments when you are lonely.
And the thing is, in the past, those moments you worked through, you accepted it, you dealt with it.
We were all lonely at some point in our lives, and we got through.
You don't need to do that anymore.
What you do the minute you have that pang of loneliness, and again, this is everyone at some point in time, is you pick up a device and it makes you no longer lonely.
Today's guest, Adam Alter, has been on the show in the past.
Back in the day when we were filming, you may have seen the episode and heard his awesome backstory.
If you want to know a lot more about his journey, check out that episode.
We'll drop a link in the show notes.
Adam is a professor at NYU, and he studies human behavior, why we do what we do.
And he's got a new book out called the Rise of Addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked.
And we go deep into this, into the idea of addiction, substance versus behavioral, how our environment really influences everything.
There's a lot of really eye opening wisdom and surprising wisdom about this.
And then we move over to the world of technology and what it's doing to and for us, the conversation is different than conversations that we've shared in the past, and we also kind of go down the rabbit hole of virtual reality a bit.
Also some really eye opening awakenings for me, some big questions and conversations that I think are really important to start having, both on an individual level and a societal level.
Also, before Adam left the studio, I had him sign an autographed hardcover copy of this book, and I would love to give it to one lucky listener.
How to make that happen?
How to get a copy.
Well, I'll share that at the end of this conversation, so be sure to stay tuned.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.