Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-03-29
Chris Williamson & Catherine Price: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #921
How To Defeat Your Social Media Addiction - Catherine Price - #921
Catherine Price is a journalist, science writer, and author of How to Break Up With Your Phone. How much are our phones affecting our brains?
Catherine Price discussed The Distracted Mind by Adam Gazzaley and others and The Principles of Psychology by William James.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Distracted Mind
Discussed“I'm thinking about the distracted Mind by Adam gazali and Larry Rosen where they talk about how human beings tend to forge for information in the same way that animals forage for food”
Where to get it
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The Principles of Psychology
Discussed“I think from Williams William James who wrote the principles of psychology in 1890 and I'm sure you've talked about a bunch on your show before”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged How to break up with your phone
“one of the most effective things you can do if you're trying to quote break up with your phone as I put it or change your relationship with your phone is to become more aware of when you reach for your phone”
Plugged How to break up with your phone
“I say in my book explicitly that psychologists call this intermittent rewards and I call it the reason we date jerks”
Plugged How to break up with your phone
“he was like oh hello and I was like I wrote this book I was just talking about your work like I literally had just been talking about his work at a conference”
Plugged How to break up with your phone
“so for example I often recommend people experiment with taking a full 24-hour break for their phones as part of the breakup plan in my book”
Plugged The Power of Fun
“that was my follow-up book to how to break up with your phone is called the power of fun”
Plugged How to break up with your phone
“who people who go through the breakup plan of my book are like oh my God all right I reclaimed time for my phone now why am I existentially depressed which is what happened to me”
Plugged How to break up with your phone
“and then the book we've been talking about is called how to break up with your phone and it is available”