Take the online challenge
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:44 am
Do you check your social media in the car?
Checking social media impulsively can be very addictive. Research shows that this addiction can be more severe than alcohol or drugs. Of course, the effects of such an online addiction are less harmful. But is that really the case? Think about how you use online media. Do you check your online media (yes, that includes email) in the car, on the sports field, or while you are eating with others? If you answer 'yes' to any of these questions, then you know that you are impulsive. That social media also triggers your lizard brain.
Locking yourself in a mental prison of urgency
That impulsive checking of your online media is more serious than you might think. It results in other parts of your brain not being used enough. Namely the parts of your brain where you daydream. Where you fantasize about how your life could be. Or the part of your brain where you consciously make plans to improve your life. To apply for that new job. To start that own company. Those kinds of plans require dreaming and fantasy. You have to stare into space. Do nothing for a while. Things you don't do, when your impulsive brain is constantly busy with social media and small urgent actions. Because all those small urgent actions eventually lead to a mental prison of quasi-urgency, in which you lock yourself up.
Do you think it won't go that far for you? Then I challenge you to the big online france telegram data addiction challenge. From now on, check your online media only occasionally, for example every 4 hours. Suppose you sleep 8 hours a day, then you still have 16 hours left. You are allowed to check your email, Facebook and Twitter 5 times or post an update during that time. That is still often. But I can assure you: it is not easy. Try doing this for a week and you will discover how strongly your brain was addicted to online media. Can you do this for a week? Then extend the test to 30 days and discover how it changes your life with this online diet for a healthier life.
At the helm of your life
After doing this for a few days, you will experience how strongly you were addicted to impulsively checking online media. In addition, you will discover other things: your lizard brain will have less control. This has major consequences: you will be more in control of your life and will have plenty of time on your hands again. Time to talk to friends, take a long walk, plan a trip, or read a good book. Time to think about your company's strategy, or that new job. Time in which you make plans, become proactive, actively shape your life. Time that you no longer spend impulsively like a lizard, but time in which you really live.
While pondering in the sun, I look one more time at the stones where the lizard has disappeared. I stretch and stand up lazily. My brain is not only in flight-or-relax mode. I can also laze around in the sun and at the same time make plans, fantasize, tell stories. Should I quickly post a nice update about that on Twitter? I suppress the reflex, stand up and start walking. Slowly a story starts to form in my head. About lizards, haste, and online media. But also a story about reflecting, taking time, taking matters into your own hands. A story that is worth writing down and telling calmly. A story that would never have come about if I had posted impulsively on online media.
Checking social media impulsively can be very addictive. Research shows that this addiction can be more severe than alcohol or drugs. Of course, the effects of such an online addiction are less harmful. But is that really the case? Think about how you use online media. Do you check your online media (yes, that includes email) in the car, on the sports field, or while you are eating with others? If you answer 'yes' to any of these questions, then you know that you are impulsive. That social media also triggers your lizard brain.
Locking yourself in a mental prison of urgency
That impulsive checking of your online media is more serious than you might think. It results in other parts of your brain not being used enough. Namely the parts of your brain where you daydream. Where you fantasize about how your life could be. Or the part of your brain where you consciously make plans to improve your life. To apply for that new job. To start that own company. Those kinds of plans require dreaming and fantasy. You have to stare into space. Do nothing for a while. Things you don't do, when your impulsive brain is constantly busy with social media and small urgent actions. Because all those small urgent actions eventually lead to a mental prison of quasi-urgency, in which you lock yourself up.
Do you think it won't go that far for you? Then I challenge you to the big online france telegram data addiction challenge. From now on, check your online media only occasionally, for example every 4 hours. Suppose you sleep 8 hours a day, then you still have 16 hours left. You are allowed to check your email, Facebook and Twitter 5 times or post an update during that time. That is still often. But I can assure you: it is not easy. Try doing this for a week and you will discover how strongly your brain was addicted to online media. Can you do this for a week? Then extend the test to 30 days and discover how it changes your life with this online diet for a healthier life.
At the helm of your life
After doing this for a few days, you will experience how strongly you were addicted to impulsively checking online media. In addition, you will discover other things: your lizard brain will have less control. This has major consequences: you will be more in control of your life and will have plenty of time on your hands again. Time to talk to friends, take a long walk, plan a trip, or read a good book. Time to think about your company's strategy, or that new job. Time in which you make plans, become proactive, actively shape your life. Time that you no longer spend impulsively like a lizard, but time in which you really live.
While pondering in the sun, I look one more time at the stones where the lizard has disappeared. I stretch and stand up lazily. My brain is not only in flight-or-relax mode. I can also laze around in the sun and at the same time make plans, fantasize, tell stories. Should I quickly post a nice update about that on Twitter? I suppress the reflex, stand up and start walking. Slowly a story starts to form in my head. About lizards, haste, and online media. But also a story about reflecting, taking time, taking matters into your own hands. A story that is worth writing down and telling calmly. A story that would never have come about if I had posted impulsively on online media.