Digital distraction
Subject in Self-Improvement
Digital distraction has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Pico IyerBritish-born travel writer and essayist, author of Aflame: Learning from Silence
Iyer recommends sitting without devices for 20 minutes each morning, claiming it transforms the rest of the day.
“just sit quietly without your devices for 20 minutes every morning, setting a tone for the day”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 11:55
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
Escaping the modern world and your noisy mindTED Radio Hour · Nov 6, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with Pico Iyer, Sarah Edmondson and Lehua Kamalu, and airs Shonda Rhimes's talk, about escape, silence, cults, voyaging and burnout.