Every day, you are bombarded by messages, warnings, nudges and commands, each designed to influence your behaviour in one way or another. But do these techniques actually work? If they do, are we becoming immune?
As more of our lives are lived through screens, what is that actually doing to us, and are we missing out on the tangible experiences that actually shape our personalities for the better? Could real life experience make time move more slowly?
These are all questions that writer and behavioural psychologist Patrick Fagan has been trying to answer. Aside from his day job making you buy more bottled water, Patrick’s extracurricular activities include infiltrating cults and trying a new experience every week, from cuddle workshops to S&M dungeons to lying in an isolation tank, and everything in between. He joined us in the studio for a wide-ranging discussion which touched on all of the above, as well as whether environmental activists actually believe the world is going to end, th…
