What Sahar Yousef has said about Brain breaks and boredom
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Sahar Yousef, Cognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity, has been quoted on Brain breaks and boredom once in 1 episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Yousef cites a 2024 Nature paper finding nature exposure was the best break and TikTok-style scrolling the worst.
“It turns out the best kind of break is, in fact, no surprise there, being exposed to nature”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:27:24
Episodes
Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.
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