Dr. Anna Lembke

And I need for this and this and this reason, you know, for other people's safety.

you know, or for work.

Now, I want to emphasize that it really is true that a lot of us need to be digitally connected for our work, but we also use that as an excuse to be overconnected.

So this is all the part of the planning in advance.

How are people going to reach me when I'm on my dopamine, you know, digital dopamine fast?

How am I going to negotiate work even though I'm not going to be using that app or even though I've turned off notifications so I'm not constantly triggering, you know, my reward pathway with the little alerts that pull me back in?

So it's really anticipating it, knowing you're going to feel uncomfortable, but trusting that with the passage of time, your brain will readapt and you will find yourself in a place which is so much better, right?

Where you're not in that constant state of craving or...

where you have more presence, because really what we're losing so much of is our presence, right?

When we're in the line checking, we're not really looking around at where we are or what other people are doing or what's happening on the road or in the sky or in our own minds.

So we really recapture that presence.

And that is our life, right?

We're getting back our life.

Yeah.

Because it will get better with time.

Yes.

The longer you can go, the less you'll miss it.

And then you'll even get to a place where you don't want to have anything to do with it.

Absolutely not.

Part of recapturing our motivation is not having these frictionless, cheap pleasures that we can distract ourselves with.