Dave Wood

what's going to happen when you stop?

Your brain wants more of it.

Pattern recognition, yeah.

Yeah.

You know, holding that thing in your hand, putting it up to your lips.

There's a whole process that you go through when you do that, right?

Yeah.

And it's filling a void.

It's filling space in your day.

Same with the phone?

Same with the phone.

The whole thing of being addicted to stress is just ask yourself, when you find a quiet space in the day, what do you do?

Do you sit there, allow your mind to wander off onto ideas and allow yourself to be bored?

Or do you search for more stimulus?

The phone, multitasking, high-resolution imagery.

The other thing about the phone is just flicking through it and multitasking.

um that's actually stealing your ability to focus and so you go into the next bout of work where or you're trying to do something that requires your focus but your focus is fragmented because you're constantly training the opposite of focus which is multitasking it's interesting because i'm picturing myself working from home and i'm doing tasks i'm doing work i'm doing productive stuff

No, well –

The key skill is being able to shift from whatever physical and mental state you're in into one of calm.

And that's how the nervous system loves this oscillation between stress, pushing, getting stuff done, and then shifting back into a calm state.