You're in a relationship with technology...and you've got boundary issues. Elaine Kasket talks about psychologist Erik Erikson and her reboot of his famous psychosocial life stages.

This week, author and psychologist Elaine Kasket previews her upcoming book, This is Your Life on Tech, and thinks about how the negativity bias skews our perceptions online and off - which is why gratitude practices can be so helpful.

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When you really need to be productive, does it feel like technology is working for you or against you? This week, author and psychologist Elaine Kasket shares three ways she uses technology when she's up against a deadline.

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This week, psychologist and author Elaine Kasket delves into why you should be taking more walks in nature - and why you should be leaving your phone at home when you do it.

In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey spoke of the circles of control, influence and concern. In this podcast, psychologist and author Elaine Kasket explains how you can use Covey's simple model to shape your moods, thoughts and behaviour from the moment you wake up.

Elaine is the author of All the Ghosts in the Machine and the upcoming (2023) This is Your Life on Tech.

What do words and phrases like virtual, in real life, face to face, cyberspace mean to you? Your answer may say a lot about how you’re feeling as you navigate the world these days - to your quality of life.

Here's some links to folks mentioned in this week's This is Your Life on Tech:

Luciano Floridi et al.'s Onlife Manifesto.

Patrick Stokes, Digital Souls

William Gibson, Neuromancer

Elaine Kasket is a psychologist, coach, writer and storyteller, the author of All the Ghosts in the Machine and the upcoming This is Your Life on Tech.

Expert in psychology and technology Elaine Kasket explains what 'intimate surveillance' means and gets you to consider...if you're hacking or snooping into your partner's accounts or devices to assuage your anxieties about the relationship, how's that really working out for you?

You can subscribe to the full text of this podcast over on Substack. Elaine is the author of All the Ghosts in the Machine (2019) and the upcoming This is Your Life on Tech (2023).

Expert in psychology and technology Elaine Kasket explains why setting goals, rules, and limits about our technology use might not be the most effective way forward. What can you do to make your tech use better for you?

Some values exercises connected to today's show:

There are many tools for values clarification. If you want to do it using tech, try an app like Values Discovery on the Google Play store, which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be available on IOS.

There are values exercises early on in The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Journal, because ACT is grounded in values.

Elaine recommends the old-school way: the. paper version of the Personal Values Card Sort. Print the values and cut them out (don't fall into the double-sided-print settings trap). Instructions are on the exercise. Remember: they should be yours, you should keep out the shoulds, and you don't have to be living them at the moment for them to be an authentic value.

You can subscribe to the full text of this podcast over on Substack. Elaine is the author of All the Ghosts in the Machine (2019) and the upcoming This is Your Life on Tech (2023).

Coming 23rd January 2023! The This is Your Life on Tech mini-podcast, from psychologist, coach and author Elaine Kasket, is chock-full of ready-to-use tools, techniques, and reflections to ground you in an electric world. Ten minutes every Monday to help you live a more intentional life in the week ahead.