Jim Kwik explains why you shouldn't check your phone for the first hour after waking. Your brain is in a highly suggestible state, and each notification triggers dopamine hits that train you to crave constant stimulation. Starting your day reactive to emails and messages makes focus harder all day.
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But if you wanna win the day, you gotta win that first half an hour, hour of the day. So I would suggest, don't touch your phone the first half an hour or an hour of the day, and the last half an hour or an hour of the day. Why? Because when you wake up first thing in the morning, from a brain reason, you're in this alpha-theta state. You're extremely suggestible. If you pick up your phone, you're rewiring your brain for a number of things. Number one, you're training it for distraction. Every dopamine, like every like, share, comment, cat video, it gives you a dopamine flood, and you wonder why you can't focus. Yes. Because you're trained to be distracted. And number two, when you're in that pressure state, it trains you to be reactive. Correct. It trains you to be reactive. All of a sudden you get one email, one voicemail message, it ruins your day, and we've all had that. You know, it's just you're fighting fires and you're on the defense.