We’re all dopamine junkies…
We have those days where we’re slumped over our desks like a sack of wet regrets, scrolling through the endless shitstream of notifications, memes, and rage bait that’s turning our brain meat into a dumpster fire.
I get it. The endless scroll fest, the notification orgies, the perpetual ping pong match between apps that are forever digging their fingers into our cerebral cortex.
So it’s time to yank the emergency brake.
We need a little bit of a factory reset and this is one of the many ways I’ve found it works:
Kill the notifications. All of them. Yes, even that “important” Discord server about optimising your morning routine.
Throw your phone in a drawer for 24 hours (or at least pretend it’s 1999)
Read an actual book. You know, those rectangular things made of dead trees. Nothing digital. No kindle or kobo or whatever.
Go outside and touch grass (bonus points if you talk to an actual human)
The first 6 hours will feel like trying to teach calculus to a goldfish.
Your brain will scream. It’ll beg. It’ll promise to be good.
Don’t listen.
By hour 12, something magical happens…
Your thoughts start flowing like actual thoughts instead of feeling like your drowning in quick sand.
Try it. What’s the worst that could happen?
(Besides missing another viral TikTok about a cat playing piano while making sourdough bread)
I actually have been enjoying learning to make sourdough bread though…
Thibuat Meurisse has a wicked sick book on helping you get rid of all of those distractions too
And if you want a guide to beat your phone into submission and make it the slave and you the master. Hit reply and I’ll send it your way.
Stephen Walker.
P.S. If you’re reading this while simultaneously watching YouTube and checking Twitter, you’re exactly who needs this message.