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🧠 Why You Should Never Sleep With Your Phone (ft. Jack Winston)
PAID: 🫂You Are Not Alone
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🧠 The Science Behind Why You Should Never Sleep With Your Phone

(featuring Jack Winston of BePresent)

What’s the first thing you look at in the morning, and the last thing at night? You want to say your pet or your partner, but it’s probably your phone, right?

Screen time in bed is like dinner in the bathroom. Bad mix.

It’s a habit that’s super hard to break, and it’s more than your willpower — it’s psychology.

Our addiction to our phones has been intentionally engineered by social media companies using decades-old psychological techniques.

And it primarily relies on one simple chemical: dopamine.

Commonly misunderstood as the “pleasure” chemical, dopamine is actually the “motivator” chemical because it's what's released in the 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 of a reward.

Through various techniques, the apps on our phones constantly trigger dopamine release in our brains. As our brains release more and more dopamine, we get motivated to search for more.

The infamous reload icon is designed like a slot machine, making you anticipate more content.

The constant dopamine hits and overstimulation from scrolling on our phones is a vicious cycle - after getting our first hit, we want another. Then we want more. And more. And more.

What can we do to intervene in this cycle?

My strongest advice is to not sleep with your phone next to your bed.

This is because we have the most self-control in the morning. Delaying your phone use, and the dopamine hits that come with it, allows for more self-control throughout the day.

I.e. it's harder to stop than to never start at all.

If you can, buy an old-school alarm clock, and leave your phone in another room when you go to bed. If you must use your phone before completing your morning routine, put it on airplane mode. — I aim for at least one phone-free hour in the morning.

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫? 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭? I want to hear how this habit affects you, and what you've tried to curtail it.

You Are Never Alone 🙆🏾‍♂️