This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "The Negative Impact Of Social Media…" discussing the effects of social media on dopamine levels and the importance of setting boundaries to reduce frequency of use. The conversation involves two speakers analyzing the rapid dopamine elevation caused by social media compared to traditional activities.
What is a healthy relationship with social media? Reduce significantly the frequency.
Of engagement. When you look into it from a dopamine point of.
View, every single time you enter social media, you're experiencing this very fast elevation in dopamine and that.
Creates a very quick.
Crash as the brain seeks for its balance.
We only originally could experience that elevation in dopamine.
From successfully spending five hours building a hut or making a fire or hunting down an animal. So it was a very slow increase. We experienced pleasure, a nice.
Slow, steady decline. If you look at social.
Media, you're.
Effectively experiencing the same elevation in dopam as a hunter gatherer.
Would after five hours of hunting. But you're experiencing it within three or four seconds from opening the app.
And therefore, because it rises so fast.
And the brain is just thinking, wow.
I can't deal with this overstimulation. After you come off social media, you.
Get this really significant crash.
This is called phasic and tonic dopamine.
And that creates.
This low mood, low energy, inattention type experience.
Having really strong boundaries to reduce frequency seems to be very important.
