In spending our so-called leisure time indoors mindlessly pounding away on stationary objects, we’re severing our connection to the natural world. As my good friend and surfer Laird Hamilton told me, “Technology’s tendency to insulate us from nature while we’re participating in it ultimately leads to us failing to absorb all it has to offer. We’re missing out because we’re looking down at our phones the whole time, and that’s having an effect on our brain.”
