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16 Quick Tips to Break Free From FB, Instagram, and Netflix Addiction and Reclaim Your Life

“We limit how much technology our kids use in the home.” Steve Jobs uttered these words in a 2010 interview with New York Times journalist Nick Bilton. This was the same Steve Jobs who had unveiled the iPad just a few months earlier – and with enthusiasm, “What this device does is extraordinary… It offers the […]

How Addictive Technology (FB, Netflix, and Co.) is Silently Killing Your Happiness, Health, and Productivity

According to a Nielsen report, the average American spends more than 11 hours every day watching, reading, listening to, or otherwise interacting with media. Most of this time is spent watching live television (4:10), followed by smartphone use (2:22), radio (1:46), tablet use (0:47), and internet use on computer (0:39). Another statistic shows that we spend […]

The Rise of Addictive Technology: How FB, Instagram, Netflix, and Other Tech Companies Get You Addicted to Their Services (And Why You Should Care)

In 1930, Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner came up with an experiment. He took a hungry rat and placed it in a box with a lever on one side. As the rat explored its new cage, it would accidentally hit the lever and, when it did so, a food pellet would drop on the floor. After the […]

The Rise of Media Multitasking: What Blasting Yourself With Multiple Media Streams is Doing to Your Brain

The time of consuming one medium at a time is over. We’re no longer just reading a book, just watching television, or just listening to our favorite tunes. We now watch television while browsing the Web. We answer emails while listening to music. We are “watching” a YouTube video in one tab, while instant messaging […]

A Complete Guide to Multitasking – How This Seemingly Innocent Habit is Rewiring Your Brain for Constant Distractibility, Greater Impulsivity, and Lower Productivity (and What You Can Do About it)

We live in the era of multitasking. According to a recent study, 81% of Americans always or almost always engage in at least one additional activity while watching television. When 200 people were asked to track their media activities during a one-hour evening period in another study, they reported switching between mobile phones, tablets, and […]

Stop Watching So Much Television! It’s Killing Your Productivity, Health, and Happiness (Here’s PROOF)

According to a Nielsen report, U.S. adults spent an average of almost six hours (5:57) per day on video in 2018. The good ol’ TV, live and time-shifted, eats up most time, with adults watching a staggering average of 4 hours and 46 minutes per day. The number differs heavily depending on your age, as shown […]

Research Says You Should STOP Consuming the News – If You Want Greater Health, Happiness, and Productivity

“If you wish to improve,” Stoic philosopher Epictetus said, “be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.” We sometimes play general knowledge games, such as Trivial Pursuit, at our family get-togethers. Questions include such classics as…In ‘Shrek,’ what comedic actor voices Donkey?What superhero has been played by Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and […]

Lessons on “Hard Work” by Michael Phelps, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, and co.

We all have dreams and aspirations of what we’d like to achieve and who we’d like to become. Some of us want hotter bodies, faster cars, bigger houses, or longer vacations. Some want simpler things, such as a happy family or a fulfilling career. Some want to travel the world. Some want to become more confident, […]

The Exact Browser and Desktop Setup I Use to Maximize Productivity [Video Walk-through]

What’s the fastest and least painful way to change your behavior? Changing your environment. If you’re familiar with Philip Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment or with Ellen Langer’s Counterclockwise Experiment, you’re aware of the insane changes different environments can lead to, and quickly. In Zimbardo’s case, good people became evil in a matter of days. In Langer’s experiment, they literally […]

My Latest Productivity Hack – an Old-School $10 Alarm Clock

My fancy new productivity toolProductivity doesn’t have to be complicated or fancy. I recently bought an old-school $10 alarm clock that has made a remarkable difference in how productive I am. Why? Because it allows me to leave my smartphone in a drawer overnight, which gives me a much more effective start to the day. I get […]

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