The Future of Cell Phone Addiction | Simon Sinek

27 Dec 2019 · 1 min

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A short monologue (Simon Sinek) about addiction—specifically cell phone addiction—arguing that many people recognize the problem and predicting a forthcoming social pushback led by younger generations. The speaker anticipates behaviors such as friends intentionally putting phones away, companies banning phones from conference rooms/meetings, and restaurants banning phone use, framing these changes as positive steps away from addictive habits.

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You know, the problem with addiction is addicts know that it's bad for them. Like, there are plenty of alcoholics who know that what they're doing is unhealthy, but they're addicted, which is why they keep doing it. I think many of us can admit that what we do is unhealthy and that it is addictive, and we may be addicted. The question is, are we putting ourselves through a regime to try and kick the addiction? So I think, you know, we're past the first step. We've admitted we've had a problem. We've got 11 steps to go, but it's moving in the right direction. And I think, you know, if I. If I was forced to make a prediction over the next couple years, I think we're going to start to see. I think it's going to come from a younger generation, not an older generation, but I think we're going to start to see a rebellion. And I think we're going to start to see more kids taking time to spend time with their friends and actively putting their phones away when they spend time with each other. I think we're going to start to see more companies.
Passing rules that there's no cell phones in conference rooms for any meetings. I think we're going to start seeing more restaurants banning cell phones in their restaurants.
And I think that's a good thing.