Bored and Brilliant with Manoush Zomorodi
Jan 13, 2020•33 min•Ep. 49
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Episode description
Connect with Manoush Zomorodi
Website: www.manoushz.com | Twitter: @manoushz | Book: Bored and Brilliant
Connect with Vrain Waves
Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
- Manoush’s work (01:08)
- Note to Self podcast
- Zig Zag podcast
- Ted Radio Hour podcast
- Stable Genius Productions
- Bored and Brilliant Book
- Manoush’s TED Talk
- Technology and our Brain, background of the book (02:07)
- Bored and Brilliant challenges, 2015
- Ways we ‘pay’ for ‘free’ apps
- Taking pictures and our memory (06:04)
- Self-regulation with technology (08:52)
- Stories from Bored and Brilliant challenges in the classroom (10:10)
- Skim reading v. long form reading
- Maryanne Wolf - researcher, language processing on screens vs in books
- Sherry Turkle's - Reclaiming Conversation
- Boredom in the classroom (14:15)
- Default Mode
- Autobiographical Planning
- Embracing boredom - positive constructive mind wandering
- Memory for future imagining
- Digital Minimalism Vrain Waves Episode with Cal Newport
- Knowing-Doing Gap for tech use (18:14)
- What Manoush is reading: Super Thinking (22:22)
- Who are you online? (24:19)
- Takeaways (25:42)
- Bored and Brilliant challenges
- Add a new behavior instead of taking away behavior
- Seinfeld jokes calendar
- Streaks app
- Brainscape app
- Brainscape article on diffuse and focused modes of thinking
- Subreddit: Shower Thoughts - Best of Shower Thoughts
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