Brain breaks and boredom
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Brain breaks and boredom has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Sahar YousefCognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity
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
Podcasts
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
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.