Arthur C. Brooks

You get into a doom loop with gambling, with lots and lots of things in life where it helps you a little and then it hurts you a lot and it creates the problem is supposed to solve.

And so you do it more.

That's how doom loops work.

And the same thing is true with technology.

When people

They're bored or they're anxious or they're stressed or they're lonely.

The first thing they do is they pull out their phones and they become very, very addicted to it.

The trouble is it makes things worse.

The more you binge on it, the worse it gets.

And that's a doom loop.

And you got to clip that doom loop.

You got to get out of the doom loop is what it comes down to, like anything else.

I mean, if you go to the doctor and say,

I can't stop drinking.

He's not going to say, well, let's deal with the underlying problems that make you drink.

I hope your doctor does that too.

But the first thing he's going to do is to try to get you to stop drinking.

You've got to get out of the doom loop.

Yeah, no, I appreciate it, Max.

And I hear this all the time.