Chris Williamson

Dude, one of the best stories I've heard about this is from Alain de Botton, and he's describing being in Paris, and it's a...

Early summer day, beautiful weather outside, a little cloudy, a little bit of sun, and it's sort of late afternoon, classic European fashion.

This French couple are sat around a small table, wrought iron chairs, and they've got a couple of espressos, and they're just so deeply in love.

Young couple, sort of maybe mid-20s, something like that.

He's got this line, he says, I looked at them and realized that this beautiful memory would be one of the greatest sources of pain to one of these people if the relationship ever ended.

It's strange that this thing that at the time is really, really wonderful actually becomes the thing that's kind of the, I'm never going to Paris again.

I'm fucking moving to Rome or whatever it is because I need to totally change my context.

And that's also the same when it comes to phones, right?

I tried to stop using my phone and this still kind of works.

I just changed the pocket that I put it in.

Because I realized that for an entire decade, I'd had my phone in my right pocket.

And like a speed shooter withdrawing his firearm, I would just mindlessly put my hand in my pocket.

The number of times that I pulled my wallet out when I changed it to look at my wallet, it's just habitual.

It's just this obsessive sort of routine.

My wallet's going to be vibrating.

Again, true.

Wow.

Before we continue, most people in their 30s are still training hard.

Their protein is dialed in.

They sleep better than they did in their 20s.