Dr. Cal Newport

Like you have this sort of digital network extension of information and what's going on.

There's also the much more pessimistic view, which is no, no.

That feeling is the feeling of a moderate behavioral addiction.

Right.

So you'll hear the same thing from a gambler.

I really – when I'm away from being able to play, right, to make my bets or do whatever, like I feel really – I feel not myself.

And then when I'm around it and I can play and make some bets, play some poker, whatever it is.

Feeling of the chips.

I feel myself, that chips, right?

Like they would say, so it could be, both of these things could be true.

I think the moderate behavioral addiction side is more true than a lot of us want to admit, actually.

Like it does feel bad because moderate behavioral addictions build these feedback response loops.

And then you get the dopamine system going when the anticipation, because what's on there is things that have been engineered that you're going to get this sort of highly engaging stimuli.

And then you see the deliverance of that stimuli, right?

This

really nice piece of glass on a piece of metal.

I'm going to press this sort of carefully, this icon whose colors have been chosen because we know it's going to hit various parts of our neural alert systems to be as engaging as possible.

And I'm going to see something in there that's going to generate some sort of emotional response.

So of course, when you see that thing sitting there, you want to use it.

And when you can't,