Heya playas, when you wake up in the morning what is the first thing that you do?
If it's reaching over and grabbing your phone then you've got a problem, but you're not
alone.
We all are obsessed with our phones but today I'm gonna explain to you why it's bad for
us and how you can break that cycle.
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Technology is great, don't get me wrong but we are slowly becoming zombies who can't focus
on something for more than a few seconds at a time.
Whenever you find yourself waiting in line, do you take out your phone?
Even if you're walking through a hallway or down a staircase, our natural instincts are
evolving to make us feel like we always need to reach for our phone.
Some of you might feel like, what's so bad about that?
In that moment I'm bored and I'm just curing that boredom.
That's what you think is happening, but here's the truth.
A study was done on rats to see how they would react to a consistent reward system and a
sporadic one.
In the first test whenever the rat pushed the lever he was rewarded with a piece of
food.
Slowly the rat stopped caring about it because he realized that his action led to that reaction.
But in the second test the delivery of food when pressing the lever was randomized.
He could press it 1 time or he could press it 100 times and somewhere in between the
food would come down.
This excited the rat, so much that he kept pressing it and pressing it because he was
waiting for that big delivery to happen.
Humans aren't all that different.
The majority of us are always carrying our phones and whenever we hear a text message
sound, an email notification or a Facebook IM we feel compelled to check it out.
Those sporadic gems throughout the day keep us on the edge of our toes, so much that we
constantly check our phones even when there's nothing new to check.
How many times have you been caught in the loop where you run through all your social
networks, pause for a second and then run through that loop again?
That's not curing boredom, that's obsession.
And on top of all that this sense of "multi-tasking" that we think we're doing really isn't multi-tasking
either.
One of the only times where we actually can successfully multi-tasking is when we're walking.
But any time we're switching tabs on a computer or doing two things at once, we're really
task switching.
For most people, it's easier to task switch all day long because it prevents us from having
to deal with what we're absolutely terrified of, our simple existence.
But are we too far gone at this point?
Is it impossible for us to pull away from our phones and not feel like when we do we're
gonna miss something important?
Leave your comments below so we can talk about it.
At first detaching from this thing can sometimes make you feel weird and in some cases, naked.
If you can set aside time each day to focus on one solid thing without any distractions,
you'll feel a lot more relaxed and awakened.
Trust me on that one.
As always guys, love and peace.
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