I did a dopamine fast because the internet told me to

In my last video I talked about how the

internet

is driving me crazy lately and it seemed like a lot of you resonated with it being good

because

it helped me feel seen, but also a little sad

because

Matt is mean, but I think a lot. We're all at this point where we're trying to figure out how to use our phones enough to still feel connected to the outside world, but not so much that we get sucked into the endless reel of depression and that leads to some late nights. It makes me lay in bed with my

internet

flashlight two inches from my face, you know, to help me fall asleep and I get this ad from Instagram, there's no video, there's no information about the actual app it's supposed to advertise. , just seven slides telling me. doing a

dopamine

fast

and it made me think that maybe I'm relying too much on rapid, constant doses of

dopamine

to get through the day and maybe that's having an overall negative effect on my well-being, I mean if I get bored for longer.

In less than two seconds I take my phone out of my pocket and open Twitter. Sometimes I'll be playing a video game and a loading screen or cutscene will pop up that I'm not fully invested in and I'll pull out my Phone Call to start playing a different game. God forbid 10 seconds go by where I'm not fully stimulated by something, so I start to wonder how much of an effect unconsciously checking my phone at all hours of the day has on me. Have I trained myself to never focus too much on one thing because I always get distracted willingly?

Think about it, how can I train my brain to enjoy what I'm doing if in the back of my head I feel the need to do it? I will always be doing something else. Don't know. These are just questions, but perhaps the same device that causes all these problems could also be the one that contains the solution. That's how it is. I'm talking about wellness apps, honey. I've been receiving ads from a stupid number. of them recently and I thought why not keep downloading them until my brain fixes itself. An important rule for this video is that I will not spend a single dollar every time I download the Instagram Rabbit Hole targeted ad.

I end up maxing out my credit card on a pile of junk that will just gather dust in my closet until the day I die. Anyway, it's important to make the rule of not spending money because I was so tempted when some people tagged me on Twitter and To talk about this before I start the rest of the video in the first week using Arrow, my phone time was reduced. reduced 25 mom life, business owner, every time you walk by it's like, oh, you know, leave your phone here and go be present, dad, husband. Businessman, okay, so it's a box for your phone, but how does the phone fit into the box?

I have to be the one to put it there hmm look I would probably choose not to and therein lies the problem, look at how we are. Back to square one, I now have time restrictions set on all my social media apps and the only thing that has changed is that I now have to press two more buttons before continuing to use them, which, by the way, I never stop do. Arrow is the first in-home digital wellness solution designed for families. Well, I guess anything can come first if you can come up with a specific enough category.

Carl combines a beautifully designed smart box that holds and charges your phone with a motivating and encouraging act that together make it easy and fun to be away from your phone so you can focus on the things that really matter having sex with your wife, wait , so before you put it in the box you have to tell your phone why it is working. in the box like it's going to be crazy if you don't have a good enough excuse now. I'm sure you're wondering how much this life-changing device costs and you're in luck because you can join Arrow for as little as 18, of course, of course, it's a membership, of course, you have to subscribe to the box so that They have a monthly option or an annual option, but even if you choose the monthly option, you must pay for it for at least a year before you can do so. cancel which means at minimum this is a $180 purchase for an empty box every once in a while an invention comes along that reminds you why humans are at the top of the food chain this is a revolutionary technology can you believe that It only costs 200 to put it on? your phone in a box like if you asked me a week ago I would have said I don't know 30 million dollars to put my phone in a box so the fact that it's so cheap just shows you that they're not in it for the money they are doing just to make the world a better place, fortunately for me, I can follow my own advice and not pay for this because as I mentioned before, there are many free options that could achieve exactly the same thing.

The same thing that's funny about this app is that this is not at all what the app is, there is no mention of a dopamine

fast

anywhere in the app, it's just some weird guy whispering to you and if you want to listen to it forever , it'll cost you 150 bucks right now you're using the most complicated gadget in the known universe to understand me your brain no thanks once I realized I had no interest in what the actual application is I figured why not just do the dopamine fasting from the app, so Over the next week I'll let these seven screenshots dictate my life and my choices and I'll also check out a few other Wellness apps along the way.

Let's get started, so this is definitely going to be one of the hardest days of the challenge for Yo, um, but I'm actually kind of excited to be forced to do this, for sure. Twitter is the worst thing in my life. I am completely addicted. It has become a natural second impulse for me to open it during every moment. My life is where nothing happens and I'd like to eventually get rid of that urge, especially since I don't know if Twitter does anything for me right now, it's so much mental energy wasted on the most useless conversations most of the time.

It's just the dumbest person of the day saying the stupidest thing like it should be illegal to own a dog with a bunch of tweets from people saying "um no it really shouldn't and they all have a hundred thousand likes even though it's even worse" . my stupid ass sits there like they're right, it shouldn't be illegal to own a dog, that's crazy, talkative guy. I'm glad we were able to put an end to this speech that wasn't just based on a hypothetical scenario, of sorts. I just made it up, but I never would have known about it in the first place if I hadn't been here to witness it.

At the top of that half of my page for you are people who go viral for stealing other people's ticks and then once. get enough attention, they will take what I can only assume is twenty dollars to advertise a seal pillow or pills that enlarge your penis, which of course they deserve the money because of all the hard work they put into downloading. the video and repost it with a caption. I'm getting tired just thinking about all that work, plus the content just breaks all the time. Here's a new one that I think you'll really love because it still blows my mind thinking about it.

For a long time, the copy link button was here, so I knew that if I wanted to tweet someone, I just clicked this button and then this button and then I can text it to them, but wait, they moved the button, okay, so now The bookmark button is where the copy link button used to be, so I accidentally saved the Tweet when I was trying to send it to someone. It seems pointless for them to change that, but at least now that I know the buttons are moved, I can go ahead, open that backup, and click the one on the left, which is somehow again.

The Bookmark button, the buttons move now. Elon fired everyone, but that's what comes to mind. I hate this stupid app and I still choose to spend two hours a day and take it too existential or something, but that's a lot of time I'm wasting doing nothing. I fear that one day many of us in this generation are going to look back on these Precious Years of our lives and I know like, oh my God, why did I waste so much time reviewing that it mostly just made me feel worse and yet even When I say that, there's still a part of me that's okay, but is that where everyone is?

I have to go see what they're talking about it sucks and I'm tired of it and today I'm finally making a change thanks to what the other social media app

told

me to do today is the day death wastes my life and I get out to the real world and all my foreign potential, you know, I should probably do that more often. I was in a good mood most of the day. I still picked up my phone many times out of habit, but it didn't stay on. It was very long because I wasn't being sucked into a vortex of content.

I would say the worst part is that I had a little bit of fomo, but a lot of that is just paranoia for me, being a slightly noticeable internet person and I'm scared. of what people may be saying about me if I'm not there to see it, what if I trend for some very fake video of me beating up a kid and I'm not there to defend myself so people just assume that it is real? Drawing your silence is a deafening and quite challenging way to start, but I'm glad I did it today, although there's no Netflix and this is going to be interesting because if I can't watch Netflix all day, then my life will be more or less exactly.

Same thing, I don't think I can even remember the last time I opened the Netflix app. It's one of those things that I almost completely stopped using, but I still pay for it because it seems essential to me, you know, in case I want to watch The. Hangover Part Two is either cake or The Hangover Part three. I have to be honest, I'm so turned off by Netflix right now that they make 1 million shows every year, most of them are horrible and even the ones that aren't get canceled after two seasons. What makes you think I'll take the time to invest in a program if there's only a five percent chance they'll finish it?

I don't trust you anymore, friend, I'll say that too. I'm tired of the compulsive model, okay, I like weekly releases. Part of the reason things like White Lotus and The Last of Us have been so fun to watch is because there is a sense of community around them. You know, I feel a part. about something every Sunday night, when a new episode comes out, we all wait all week for it, we can all watch it at the same time and experience it together and then I can go on the Twitter app that I hate and listen to people talk about it.

It's funny if you release eight episodes at once, some people will watch it all that night, other people will watch it over the course of a couple of weeks, people who watch it quickly feel like they can't talk about it yet because they don't know if everyone are over, making fun of people who go too slow for being busy when they accidentally see spoilers online is just not okay, okay, this is not the way television should be. I never realized this was kind of a metaphor, you know, even though we want instant gratification all the time, sometimes being patient can result in a better experience, that episode can wait until next week, you know, give it a try time to digest it, it creates some anticipation for the next one in the same way. that your phone can wait until the end of the night just live in the moment now here spend time with your loved ones value every second you had can we go play soccer? oh my god are you blind?

I'm filming YouTube right now, sorry, dad. Well, you know, I think the reason they call it a present is because it's a gift. If Ted Cruz had been doing this challenge a few years ago, he might not have liked the 9/11 Twitter porn. Never forget that it was a strange thing to do that day. I'm not exactly the target audience for this because I've been in a committed relationship for the last eight years, so I haven't seen or thought about porn in exactly eight years and one day, but Still, maybe we should go check out some of those other wellness apps or distract myself.

I mean, just for fun, one of the first things I got an ad for was something called inflow where this woman pretends to tell someone off-screen about the app. Instead of just looking at the camera now I feel like I'm not the right person for this because I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD, although my Instagram ads do try, but the whole process for this I'm really not a fan. so they target people with an attention disorder and tell them this app will solve all the things they're struggling with. Look, we selected this module just to help you live your full potential, but before you can see it.

It will be two hundred dollars. You can't try until you've promised to give us money in a week. Sure you can cancel if you remember, but we usually specifically target people who are more likely toWow, what a week I feel like I've really matured, you know now? Obviously, this Instagram announcement was an oversimplification of what would likely be a much longer-term solution, but I don't think that simply eliminating one thing you enjoy every day is going to suddenly rewire your brain, all it will do is you want to do those things. What's more, the next day you will work twice as hard to make up for the lost time.

It's like if you've ever followed a short-term diet like I don't know the tb12 diet for exactly one month where the goal is simply to avoid certain foods, but without establishing viable alternatives. As soon as the diet ends, you'll be so excited to eat all the foods you missed over the last month that you'll almost immediately undo all the work you did because you didn't really learn anything new, you just avoided something for a few weeks. I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes sheer willpower isn't enough, it's like there should be an almost like a box that you put your phone in, oh my gosh.

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