Phones Are a Major Impediment to Fun

Dopemine is a brain chemical that is often associated in the popular press with pleasure. It's our brain's way of recording when something is worth doing again. Noveltyis a huge dopomine trigger and obviously, you're going to encounter something new every time you reach for your phone. Uncertaint and unpredictability is also an enormous dopomin trigger. So long story short: Our brains have been trained to associate checking our phones with the receipt of a reward. And then we're motivated to do it again and again,. In a cruel twist, we've also been so conditioned to think that it was a good idea to check my phone once after I'd had some fun

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