“No-Go Moments”: An Impulse Control Technique by Andrew Huberman
Strengthen the neural circuit in your brain involved in suppressing action.
How much genius are we losing to the compulsive need to scroll just a little bit more?
The other day I realized something. Heads up, it's pretty depressing.
Say we spend 2 hours of "wasted time" per day on our phones (and that's probably being kind).
- 2 hours x 365 days = 730 hours per year
Let's say we do this for 50 years of our lives.
- 730 hours x 50 years = 36,500 hours
That equals 4.1 years.
4.1 years, OF. OUR. LIFE, 24/7, spent on our phones.
Is this as shocking to you as it was to me? Sure, it's old news that our collective screen times are through the roof, but I never considered it on the scale of years in a single lifetime.
And I'm not here to demonize phones. I wouldn’t want to live in a world without them. However, I find it sad that it’s the first thing I think about when I open my eyes in the morning. And it bugs me that I can't make it more than 10 minutes without feeling the urge to reach for the damn thing.
