The Secret That Silicon Valley Giants Don’t Want You To Know with Dr. Adam Alter

Welcome to the Science of Success. Introducing your host, Matt Bodnar. Welcome to the Science of Success, the number one evidence based growth podcast on the Internet with more than a million downloads and listeners in over a 100 countries. In this episode, we discuss the danger of getting addicted to your screens. We look at how technology is designed to be as addictive as possible and how those addictions specifically make you spend more time on things like social media and news that make you less happy. We also look at how screens rob us of time and attention and why it's so hard to break away from them. We also look at how you can structure your environment to spend more time away from your phone and create ways to get out of these addictive behavior loops with our guest, Adam Alter. I'm gonna give you three reasons why you should join our email list today by going to successpodcast.com and signing up right on the home page. There's some amazing stuff that's only available to our email subscribers, so be sure to go there, subscribe, and sign up. There's some incredible stuff, including an awesome free guide that we created based on listener demand called how to organize and remember everything. You can get it completely for free along with another surprise bonus guide by signing up and joining our email list today. Next, you get a curated weekly email from us every single Monday called mindset Monday. It's short, simple, filled with articles, videos, stories, things that we found interesting or exciting in the last week. Listeners have been absolutely loving Mindset Monday, by the way. And lastly, you're gonna get an exclusive chance to shape the show. You can vote on guests, help us change parts about the show like our intro music, or even submit your own personal questions to our guests. Again, there's some incredible stuff, but you have to sign up and join the email list to get access to these things. So go sign up. You can sign up at successpodcast.com right on the home page. Or if you're out and about, if you're on the go, if you're driving around, just text the word smarter, that's s m a r t e r, to the number 44222. That's smarter to 44222. In our previous episode, we discussed how to become a super connector. We looked at the idea that networking is not about tactics. It's about a fundamental shift in how you think about interacting with people. We examined how to break free from the lazy and shallow networking that social media often creates. Discussed why you should never ask, how can I help, looked at the power of curiosity and asking better questions, and much more with our guest, Scott Gerber? If you wanna learn why you should throw out networking and start focusing on building real human relationships, listen to that episode. Now for the show. Today, we …