What Sahar Yousef has said about Grayscale phone display
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 Grayscale phone display 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 reports that her lab found putting phones in grayscale for three weeks reduced phone use by about an hour a day.
“And we saw, on average, people spent one hour less on their phones every single day”
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 45:31
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.
Sahar Yousef on other topics
- Persuasive technology and engagement design · 3 quotes
- Artificial intelligence · 2 quotes
- Focus sprint · 2 quotes
- Smartphone addiction · 1 quote
- Human multitasking · 1 quote
- Chronotype · 1 quote
- Rumination · 1 quote
- Brain breaks and boredom · 1 quote