André Duqum

Like it's fine to have a little bit of that, just like it's fine to have, you know, a little bit of dessert here and there or like, you know, a candy bar every once in a while.

But like if that is your primary diet day in and day out,

then your mental health is going to deteriorate the same way if you just ate candy bars all day, every day, your physical health just like completely deteriorates.

So I think it's useful to think about like, what is like the, the,

vegetables of an information diet and making sure that you have like a strong sturdy portion of that in your life and then like anything that is candy for you like just being very conscious of how much of it you're consuming and when you're consuming it and like and put guardrails on yourself because ideally we would all have perfect self-control and we would like be able to manage our but it's not we're we're fucking animals dude like it's just

put guardrails on yourself, make certain things off limits, delete apps, block certain pages at certain times, leave your phone out of the bedroom.

Like, you know, it's like all this like basic mental hygiene stuff.

Yeah.

That is, it's becoming commonplace, but it's becoming commonplace for a reason because it's just like,

It's becoming like the nuts and bolts.

It's becoming like the brush your teeth and floss of the 21st century.

It's just like, put your fucking phone away.

Stop following accounts that make you feel bad.

You only envy the life of people whose sacrifices you don't see.

Yes.

And...

It's an alluring and persistent delusion, you know, to idealize people's lives that we see, whether it's through social media or in different spaces.

And it's one thing to have something that's admirable and have it be inspiring for you to take action in life.

It's another thing to think that people didn't work and have to forego many things that you don't want to get there.

Yeah, it's because nobody shows the sacrifices.