Speaker B spent seven weeks without screens and shares what stuck. Keep phones out of bedrooms, spend 30 minutes daily wondering without googling answers, and skip GPS for two years to strengthen spatial memory like London cab drivers do. AI tools come later in the day, not first thing.
Now you're back in the modern world. What's your relationship, or how do you manage your, your phone, your notifications? What's your relationship with social media, with AI?
So one of the first things I do is I literally, if I ever say I wonder, I sit and wonder for at least 30 minutes. I just let myself wonder because remember, wondering isn't saying I wonder. Wondering is what happens after you say I wonder. So just sit with it for 30 minutes. Don't find the answer out. You know, Claude and ChatGPT, they're waiting for you later. Also, it's so important that we do not have our phones in the bedroom. And the first hour I'm awake, it is completely screen-free. Something else that I've done, I no longer, in 2 years since this experiment, I have not used Google Maps or Apple Maps to navigate anywhere in my city. There's data that shows that London cab drivers, their brains work at a way higher level than Uber drivers do because they have to memorize The city, they have to know where they're going.
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