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#149 Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How to Stop Being a Phone Slave

One of the things we're doing is saying that they can never be good enough./nThis is just the nature of it./nRight? Psychological./nSecond one is productivity./nThere's reports to say we talked about this 31% of our time on our phones is bookmark prioritizing and switching the devices are need to be turned into pull devices, not push devices./nYou get to control how the app to set up what's on the front page./nYou know, some basic tenants are even just turning your screen to black and white, mixing your apps up so that it's not, you know, compulsively checking the buttons, right? That way that we kind of end up into these little habits./nAnd then the third one I'll say is physical./nResearch from Australia shows that if you expose your brain to bright screens within two hours, I'm sorry to say this, within two hours of bedtime, your brain does not produce enough melatonin overnight. That would be the sleep hormone responsible for giving you a deep restful sleep, which may./nBe why we're all waking up at like two or three a.m. after three hours of sleep./nAnd./nYou know what they're actually also finding, Shane, is that the bright screen when it turns off gives you about an hour to jolt of extra energy because apparently evolutionary biologists are saying when the sun went down, you need.

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