Neuroscientist Dr Sahar Yousef: How to Break Phone Addiction and Focus

“You speak to Olympic athletes, they do the exact same thing. That's what I was thinking of. I was thinking of seeing who was Sir David Brownsford, who's the guy quoted in the first chapter of Atomic Habits, turning the British cycling team around, marginal gains. Beautiful. He's a good friend of mine on and off camera. And everyone knows about the marginal gains idea, focus on the smallest things.”

“So when a habit, right, this is also James Clear's Atomic Habits, phenomenal book, obviously, on habit formation, touches on these kinds of concepts. You want, ideally, you have a behavior or a habit happen without thinking, right?”

“What is that? This is a phone lockbox. So we would theoretically put your technology inside and then lock it away from you. You want to do it? Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. Okay. Let me just make sure it's off.”