#522 Are Our Phones Ruining Real Life? — Learn Polish Podcast


In episode 522 Roy and Ania discuss how technology and social media shape our daily lives and relationships. They explore phone habits, algorithms and bots, virtual versus real-life connections, and how notifications and scrolling affect attention and wellbeing.
The hosts use a short quiz to examine phone dependence, share personal examples, and encourage listeners to find balance and greater control over their tech use.
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00:04 - Introduction to the Podcast
01:48 - The Impact of Technology
08:09 - Social Media and Relationships
08:23 - Questions on Technology Use
15:58 - Conclusion and Reflection
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Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast, episode number 522.
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Pinset, I just did the bar. You find all our episodes on learnpolishpodcast.com or YouTube and Rumble.
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CzeÅÄ, Anja. Hello, Roy.
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Okay, I will always start with the same question. How do you have it?
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I live. You live! Super!
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Super, I'm very happy that you live. It's very important, because you don't have time to live.
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I have information today, because I spoke with my son a few days ago.
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And here, in the place, when there is a place where the person is at the table,
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I always say, no, I don't know, I don't know,
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and my son says, no, it's nicked. And I'm like, what?
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Because I don't know, I don't know, because I don't know, I don't know.
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I don't know if it's only a guy who thinks it's maybe a person.
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Now, maybe just to repeat these questions, back to the people who are listening
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to this text, it's 100 years ago. Let's live for us.
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Let's not say we don't live for us, because it's not, it's not. It's only my son.
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Because I have 18 years old. 18 years old, yes.
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Yes, yes. Well, it was a good idea.
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Well, in the next podcast, we started talking about this topic,
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because we started talking about how to deal with your team and you said that
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it's a shame, a raczej problem,
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spowodowany już spowodowany no wÅaÅnie technologiÄ .
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No bo gdzieÅ jednak nasze życie przeniosÅo siÄ do internetu. Prawda?
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Teraz już wszystko mamy w wersji
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wirtualnej i w kontekÅcie randek i w kontekÅcie w ogóle naszego życia.
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WiÄc dziÅ zostawimy sobie już trochÄ temat randek i porozmawiamy sobie o ogólnym
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aspekcie technologii w naszym życiu. No, technologia, technologia, wszystko super.
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Ale Roy, powiedz mi, ile razy dziennie sprawdzasz swój telefon,
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patrzysz na swój telefon, mniej wiÄcej takie pytanie na start?
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Ile? Albo jeÅli chcesz, możesz powiedzieÄ ile godzin albo minut spÄdzasz z telefonem, mniej wiÄcej.
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Nie wiem godzin, ale wiem, jest...
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I would like to be more. Aha, so you are already aware of that, that's too much, right?
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Yes, and the problem is, sometimes my phone is there, I work here,
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and then Google or YouTube says, oh, you have to be actually logged in now,
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and then you have to be a phone, and then when I have a message,
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oh, diddle, diddle, diddle.
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So, I would like to say off, but sometimes you also have an algorithm on social media.
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Like, for example, I like comedy. And it's like, look at the comic, which I like.
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They show you that you have more time there, right? So, when someone is negative,
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it will always be negative.
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Yes, in my case, the algorithm shows only the power.
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That's good, that's good.
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That's good. But I think I watch it and it's probably for a little bit.
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So, we also talked about that the relationships are more virtual than when I was.
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Because I wanted to remind you of your words from the previous podcast,
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where you said that you were going to get to know people to know them to know
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them, or somewhere else, and now it's only Internet.
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Now I have a question for you. All social media, which in Polish,
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are they social media, are they really showing us real life?
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Or just a fragment of idealized life?
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To jest AI, kto organizuje, że wszystko bÄdzie widzisz,
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na przykÅad, kiedy jedna osoba myÅli, że chemtrails, tak, jest prawda,
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bÄdzie widzisz wszystko chemtrails.
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Kiedy osoba mówi, to nie jest prawda, to nie jest tylko chemtrails,
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bÄdzie nigdy widzisz, tak.
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I it's like, there's bots, like, wszystko, X, like Twitter, dużo bots.
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So czasami ludzie rozmawia źle i to nie jest osoba, to jest bots.
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I dla mnie, bo ja mam dużo podcast, 6 podcast i czasami ludzie pisz bardzo źle.
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I dla mnie jest like report deliz, unst, ale kiedy oglÄ da ten osoba?
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Bardzo, bardzo rzadko jest zdyÅsza.
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Bardzo, bardzo rzadko is a lot of people are friends.
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So I think that it's bad, or it's a disease of a person.
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So it's not a sense to talk about a disease of a person, because it never wins.
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So it's also a dezinformance that's what it is. Yes, yes.
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Dezinformance and people say what they want to say. Okay, now we're going to
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focus on the relationship.
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Tell us, these media spoÅecznoÅciowe, they help us in the way.
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In the relationship, or in the relationship, or in the relationship,
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I mean between people, like, like, a colleague, a colleague,
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a woman, a woman, a wife, everything, like, how it is, it is a power or it is a power, or it is a power.
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It depends, because for example, when I live in the same city,
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I can talk and watch, and it's good, it's like Zoom, it's very good.
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Quick question helps, okay. Tak. I też może pisze sms i coÅ. To jest ok.
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I rozmawiaÄ na telefon, bo czasami ludzi rozmawia caÅy czas.
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I też, co jest niedobre, jest kiedy ludzi pierwszy spasar na gÅowÄ,
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tak, na dóÅ, gorsza. and I watch it all the time.
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People are driving and they don't look at the street, they don't look at the
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telephone. So it's a bizarre thing.
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It depends, because everything is like a person.
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Sometimes people talk with 10 people, write 10 people, and they say,
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well, well, well, well, thank you.
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But it's better if you go to a kawie, the kawian and the kawas for one person.
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Because sometimes people think, that I have a lot of friends,
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but they don't talk about one.
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It's probably the biggest problem, that we think, that there are a lot of people,
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because they do us write a lot, leave a comment,
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like, but when it happens, it turns out that you have only one person or in
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the worst case, you have no one. Right?
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So, here is a negative effect.
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No, so there are pluses and minuses, there are the results, but I think everything
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has its own pluses and minuses.
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In this case, Roy, let's have a few questions. Let's take a few questions.
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Let's see if you're independent.
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Or right? I am a little bit more than the technology,
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because the phone is a little bit represented by the technology.
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Because the phone is with us every time, every moment.
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So Roy, tell me, how often it is to scroll without a goal, more than 15 minutes?
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That means, for a long time. For a day.
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I don't know, social media, I don't know, other things.
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Do you scroll every day? I don't know, I don't know.
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Well, scroll for 15 minutes.
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Because I don't know, but I don't know, because I wanted to do my podcast or business.
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So, first, I don't know, I don't know, what are notifications?
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Bing, bing, I don't know. Because when I do work, and I have bing, I will see it.
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And it's 10-15 minutes, when I return to work and do good work.
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So, I never have notifications, I always do something, but maybe later,
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I have a few minutes of projects, I watch, for example, LinkedIn,
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sometimes for business, I watch, right?
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So, generally, scrolls in the middle of the day, minimum 15 minutes, right?
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Okay. Okay, let's go. Let's go. Tell me, if you're in the morning,
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right after the wake of the day, that means, in the morning you wake up,
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you open your eyes and the first thing is the phone. Is that or is it?
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Yes, but I'm in the morning, because I won't be on the bus, because I'm looking
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at the information from the comments.
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Okay, next question. What do you feel when you don't have a phone close to you?
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That means you don't have a phone, you don't see it or you don't have a phone.
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What do you feel? No problem.
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Sometimes in the evening, the phone is better than me. The phone may be in the other room.
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I wanted to watch a film about my son.
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So, when you have a phone and I'm looking for a film, you can't do anything. I'm here and I'm here.
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So, when you're in, where are you going to be? Be there. Okay. Okay.
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Well, you probably said at some point about these notifications and testing without a reason.
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But now the question is, if you test your phone without a reason for a few minutes?
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That's it, you don't hear any notifications, nothing happens,
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but you still test it. Do you do it, right?
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Yes, maybe when I am the same, I watch something, sometimes I just watch television,
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because film is a lot of work, and sometimes it's not bad, and then I watch e-mail and something.
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Okay, tell me, when you scroll your social media, do you feel like you say only
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five minutes, and then you say, oj, two hours?
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No. So you control the time, right? Tak, bo wiem jednak se caÅy czas na telefon.
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Dla mnie ksiÄ Å¼kÄ jest lepiej, tak? Bo chciaÅbym czytaÄ doÄ ksiÄ Å¼kÄ za rok.
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So, tak, to jest dwa za tydzieÅ. So, lepiej dla mnie.
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Without a phone or maybe music and I can read a book without a phone.
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But unfortunately, sometimes it's two hours and you go, it's time to cash. Yes.
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Okay. Tell me in the morning, if someone's phone call to you,
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and you're talking with someone at that moment or you're eating or something
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else, Then you will open the phone immediately or leave it first?
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It depends on who. When my mom is always open.
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Just this is the same thing, but everything else.
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No, I can do it.
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I will open for half an hour. because I don't have to talk about it.
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But sometimes people talk with other people, who are not here.
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It's not cultural, not good. So when in the salon, there is a person who talks
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all the time, it's not nice.
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Okay, well, tell me what you feel when you send a message to a person immediately answers.
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You send a message to a person immediately answers.
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What do you feel when you feel? Do you feel good or when you don't respond to a person immediately?
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Do you feel stress, stress? What do you feel?
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For example, when I write SMS and I wait for it,
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Yes, for me it's not a problem, but I know people when they write...
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But hey, wait, wait, when someone goes to you, what?
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It's not a ghost, but it's a ghost.
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Yes, it's a ghost. So no problem, you're in this problem.
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Okay, great, great. Now tell me, if you go to sleep in the evening,
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do you get the phone from the house or do you leave it? and you go to sleep
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and you don't watch anything, relax, how is it?
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Sometimes I look at it, sometimes when I'm off and I'm sleeping,
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but I never have a problem with sleeping, when I'm off, gone. Okay.
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And the last question from our test, but I think I know the answer.
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Or is it possible to make your own commitments?
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It means that you have a job, you have to make something to do with work,
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but you can tell yourself, OK, now I'm going to make something on the phone
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and you can leave your work on the phone.
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So, you have such a situation where the job is number one and then you have a phone in the mix?
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It depends on how I control my life, So I'll be able to say,
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because sometimes it's important to be at work, sometimes...
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So balance, balance, balance.
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So balance, okay.
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Anyway, I finished my test and I'll tell you that there are moments that you
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use, but I think that you're not even independent. ashtag, that you can still control it.
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It's very nice to me and I hope that it will be and that the phone will not
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dominate you, like technology, and that you will always control it.
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Super, thank you for joining me in the show and thank you for the podcast.
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As people listening, I can answer these questions and you can see how you are
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with your attention from the phone.
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I hope that you are not a matter of time, not just a serious role. Thank you very much.
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And to all of you who are listening to me, thank you very much.
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And we'll see you in the next podcast.
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