Mediocre Love, Tech-Healthy Families, Timeout In Nature

Mediocre Love, Tech-Healthy Families, Timeout In Nature

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 157

  • Jul 4, 2017 4:00 pm
  • 2:04:33 mins

How To Avoid Settling for Mediocre Love (9:48) Nate Bagley, left a successful career in internet marketing to tour the US interviewing real couples in happy successful relationships. He documented these experiences in “The Loveumentary”, a project dedicated to capturing the most compelling love stories in America. By highlighting the relationships that are working, our mission is to reinvigorate the country’s faith in love, marriage, and one another. Nate and Dr. Townsend discuss How To Avoid Settling for Mediocre Love. Traits of Tech-Healthy Families (50:23) Janell Burley Hofmann is a speaker and consultant on technology, media, health, relationships and personal growth. Technology has become so integrated into our everyday lives that it’s not unusual to see toddlers with iPads or iPods. The kicker is that sometimes they can work the gadgets better than their parents. This saturation of technology in everyday life may have some parents asking the question, “Is our family “tech-healthy”? What kinds of boundaries ought to be set to create a healthy and happy family adept at modern technology? Janell Burley Hofmann shares her article “10 Traits of Tech-Healthy Families”.  Taking a Timeout In Nature (1:35:33) Dr. David Strayer, Professor of Cognition and Neural Science at the University of Utah. His research focuses on attention and performance, skill acquisition and skilled performance, Mathematical modeling of human performance. Dr. Strayer talks with Dr. Townsend about how taking a time out in nature helps our brains.

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