Two people discuss how phone scrolling hijacks your time and attention without you noticing, leaving you feeling guilty. One contrasts it with deliberate activities like cold plunges, where your mind stays present and controlled. The difference comes down to intention.
when you're scrolling on your phone, you never sit down and say, I'm going to scroll for a half hour. So it's like, let me flick something open. And then after a couple of minutes, you're like, I should probably get off. Like, deep down inside, I can do this. And you ever get sucked into like a hole on your phone where you're like 30 minutes? Most people do. Of course. There's been nights when I'm like, I'm away on a business trip and I'm by myself in a hotel room. I have nothing else to do. I'm scrolling and it's like 11:00 at night and I'm like, I should go to sleep. So now watch one more video. My subconscious is like, what the fuck are you doing?
Like, stop.
Yeah, my mind is like, I don't know, one more, one more, one more. Now my subconscious is like, You're a piece of shit, you know that?
It's like— but do think about it. Whatever we're doing when we're scrolling, it is sucking away our attention and intention, right? Like it's sucking it away. When you and I are in a cold plunge together, we're not happy. Yeah, you know what I mean? But we're focusing our attention. We're controlling it. You have no choice but to breathe. But you're controlling your mind.
Yeah.
The difference right there in addiction, you don't control it. It controls you, right?
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