How To Not be a Screen Addict

it's 2 48 am why are you awake oh yeah because your phone fell out of your hand and onto your head because you fell asleep while watching a video of an indian guy building an underground pool in the jungle with a stick oh snap i should be asleep but then autoplay plays the next video of a guy making an entire bamboo house with a knife and just like that it's 4am and you don't even remember your own name sound familiar lights [Music] here are four ways to stop wasting your life on mobile devices number one place your phone away from your body while it may not seem like much you gotta start out small but first try with your dad's phone and see what happens son you are a disappointment to me then take your own phone and put it in your bedroom and don't go into your room see how long you can go but it's easier said than done do you feel it that urge that sweet familiar buzz telling you that four more people you rarely talk to in person like your meaningless meme you have to see it you can't not see it insert anything else here and people start laughing at you cigarettes lottery tickets fig newtons tapioca pudding cake you got a problem man but if it's a phone it's okay because everybody else does it but it's not okay it's an addiction turns out phones trigger similar chemicals in your brain as drugs do phones are drugs but that urge isn't going to magically disappear you've got to fight it like an addiction because it is so what do you do destroy your foe good idea but none of you will phones will always be around question is how do you turn a negative thing like a phone addiction into a positive which brings us to tip number two use the urge strategically pick a task you find difficult to do like one arm push-ups or astrophysics homework and make a commitment to not touch your phone until it's done now the urge is working for you number three find a hobby scrolling through memes is not a hobby binging netflix seasons is not a feat to be proud of any more than pounding fig newtons by the sleeve is worthy of a trophy then when you finally find your non-screen hobby guess what you're probably still addicted if you didn't sell or break your phone move to step four use your phone to do useful things listen to an audiobook or learn a new language america play chess or watch how-to videos like this one if you're going to pick up the phone you might as well pick up knowledge and skills while you're at it just think the average team uses electronic media for more than 11 hours a day that's right 11 hours that's more than three days a week and five months a year you could have read more than 700 average length books at that rate you could have learned fluent spanish three times and ordered burritos at the taco bell drive-through like a pro qui sierra dos burritos por favor i don't speak spanish heck you could have made thirty thousand dollars at eight bucks an hour but why do that when you can do this thank you for watching this how-to video for prageru hope that you learned something new and see you next time [Music]