Hannah Rose walks through the science of smartphone addiction: how dopamine loops hijack your brain, the neurological damage, and why constant posting kills real relationships. She urges you to try experiencing moments without documenting them.
So today I wanted to talk about the book that I've been reading that has been kind of changing my life called How to Break Up with Your Phone. And I just wanted to talk a little bit about my experience. So when I first started reading this book, the first half is about studies and like scientific evidence that shows what our smartphone use is doing to us. So the way that every single time my phone lights up, dopamine is released and it's this habit and it's picking it up and it's mindless. It's like I bring it to the bathroom with me. I bring it on a walk. I bring it to work. I bring it everywhere with me without even thinking about it. So the first half of the book is just inundating you with information about what this is doing to our brains on a neurological level. It also talks a lot about, about what this is doing to us emotionally and mentally, and my favorite topic of all time, what it's doing to our interpersonal relationships. I encourage you, the next time you're doing something fun or exciting or like Instagram-worthy, like try not posting about it. But what would it be like to experience something and not send a Snapchat of it?
