Is Our Reliance On Technology Turning Our Brains Into Mush? with Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee

Is Our Reliance On Technology Turning Our Bra...

Up next

What Taking a Break Looks Like, Scarf Spelling Bee, JVN's Favorite Fragrances

This week, we’re talking: our hiatus, AOC, scarf spelling bee, voter registration, and our HBOTW! Wanna see JVN on stage? Get tix to the Hot & Healed Comedy Tour here. Catch Getting Better & The Monday Edit, now on YouTube! Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive content, bonus e ...  Show more

How to Work With Yourself, Not Against Yourself with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin is back on Getting Better for a happiness check-in with JVN! This week, they’re talking about what actually helps us understand ourselves, and why knowing how we respond to expectations can make it easier to change our habits, navigate relationships, and create a l ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Sherry Turkle on How We're Losing Touch With One Another and What We Can Do About It
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Sherry Turkle is an expert on both our cultural and personal well-being. She's a professor at MIT, an author, a licensed clinical psychologist, and someone who's deeply concerned about how people connect and communicate. In this conversation with Alan Alda, Sherry shares her c ...

  Show more

How To Use Technology and Not Lose Our Minds
Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Is delegating tasks and even thinking to digital devices making us lose our minds, or at least some brain function? Dr. Sanjay Gupta and neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield, Oxford University professor and author of “Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Ma ...  Show more

“Tech Addiction” w/ Manoush Zomorodi
Directionally Challenged

Our amazing guest this week is co-founder of Stable Genius Productions, author, and podcast host, Manoush Zomorodi. She’s sharing her knowledge on how we’re becoming addicted to technology, setting your intentions when using your phone, and how to find the balance that’s right fo ...  Show more

Is technology killing empathy? With Sherry Turkle, PhD
Speaking of Psychology

Over the past couple of decades, our devices have become our constant companions. More and more, we live in a digital, virtual world. Dr. Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, discusses how digital communication has affec ...  Show more