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3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED
3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED
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0:04
I ask questions for a living
0:06
to people like Mark Cuban, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
0:10
Esther Perel, Bill Nye.
0:13
These masters of their field.
0:16
And the most surprising answer I heard this year
0:18
was from two 11-year-olds named Sophie and Dilan.
0:23
They too are experts in being kids these days.
0:27
So I asked them, how does time with people on screens
0:31
feel different than real life?
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(Video) Sophie: It just makes you feel more with them
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when you're on FaceTime.
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Nayeema Raza: Even more than real life?
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Sophie: Yeah, because you're doing stuff together.
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Like maybe playing Roblox together.
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Because nowadays, when you’re with them, everyone’s on their phones.
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NR: Sophie's pointing out a profound paradox.
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When we are together physically, we are each alone on our phones.
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But when we're in our phones, that's when we can be together.
1:02
The best way to not be distracted by your device?
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Just get inside of it.
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Now these 11-year-olds
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are not talking about some distant, anxious generation.
1:13
They're talking about each of us.
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They're definitely talking about me
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and about a world that's increasingly driven by machines.
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So I stumbled upon an extreme metaphor for what this could look like.
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And it's this guy who's locked in a Waymo, and it's driving him in circles.
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So he calls customer service
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and finds out he's not the only one trapped.
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(Video) Woman: Working with the situation of the vehicle.
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If you have your app pulled up,
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I need you to tap My Trip on the lower left corner of your app.
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Man: Can't you just do it? You should be able to handle it.
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Take over the car. You don't need my phone.
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Woman: I don't have an option.
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NR: It is sexy to think that the tech apocalypse
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is Arnold Schwarzenegger and "The Terminator,"
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but it could be so much more mundane than that.
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Just us driven in circles,
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held hostage by drop-down menus,
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with gadgets, disintermediating us from each other,
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from our own bodies and from our curiosities.
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Because nowadays, when we have a question, we don't wait and phone a friend.
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We friend our phones.
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And that feels so empowering to have all of this knowledge at our fingertips.
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Yet early research from MIT tells us it's making us lazier and less smart,
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and it is definitely making us less connected.
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This is not what our parents and grandparents were sold
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when they saw this relic of an ad from AT&T which says,
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"Reach out and touch someone."
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And yes, for all kinds of reasons, it would not go down well today.
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(Laughter)
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But it is oddly prescient
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because we have never been more connected and more out of touch.
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Now I’m not anti-tech. I actually cover it as a journalist.
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I have every gadget under the sun,
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and most days I think I'm in a relationship with my ChatGPT,
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or as I like to call him, Chat Daddy.
3:00
(Laughter)
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I am pro-human.
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And as we progress into an AI world
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that you've read 471.5 articles about today alone,
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I want to make a case for old habits.
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Three of them.
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And tell you how I learned them the hard way.
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The first is to pause,
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to take just one second
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when you feel that urge to reach for your digital pacifier.
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This, by the way, is a second.
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Studies show waiting that long before taking action
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lets your brain work better.
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The second is to wonder.
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Watch a movie without googling who the actor is and what else is he in,
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and how old he is, and is he single?
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You can float in your own curiosity
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instead of drown in information.
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And the third is to ask a question
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out loud again.
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Have that fight at a dinner party
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instead of playing footsie with your phone.
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Ask something to someone you thought you couldn't learn from,
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or someone you think you know everything about.
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Because the dumbest thing we can be is know-it-alls.
4:02
A few years ago, my father passed.
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In the days leading up to it, I was glued to devices.
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They had all these answers.
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The number to his hospice nurse, how often to give them morphine,
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the signs to look out for, his heartbeat.
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But when he passed on a Sunday,
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a day before the data and the vitals suggested he would,
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that's when it hit me.
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The old habits were what mattered.
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Those seconds of pause that added up to minutes more.
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That weird and scary wonder about our own finite lives.
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And the little questions people ask me,
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like, "How can I be there for you?"
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Sophie was on to something, but we're grown ups,
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and we remember when presence and curiosity and connection
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were possible outside of technology.
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We have to practice these old habits
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if we hope to pass them on to a new generation.
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If we want to teach them how to be together
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when we are together.
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Right, Chat Daddy?
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
