Dr. Vivek Murthy

our time with our family when we're having meals, our time when we're hanging out with friends.

That's going to be time that's free of social media.

We're not going to be on it.

And that might seem obvious, but the number of people who are, I guarantee you, everybody who was listening to this episode has had an experience in their life where while they've been hanging out with somebody, they've been on social media.

They are the other person.

The second thing that we can do, we can move to having a particular day of the week.

that we take as a holiday, if you will, from social media.

We might decide, okay, on Saturdays, I'm not going to check, or on Fridays, I'm not going to check.

But the third thing I would suggest is that we not do this alone, that we find a friend, somebody that we can make a pact with, that we're going to

make this commitment to create a tech-free zone in our day or take a day off in the week from using social media.

And the reason that's so important is because these platforms are addictive.

There's no other way to put it.

They're designed to be so.

And as a result, it's very easy to backslide.

It's very easy to say, let me just open the app.

Let me just see quickly if there are any notifications, but I won't really go and scroll.

But then 15 minutes in, you're scrolling, scrolling.

So we need somebody that we're accountable to.

And I actually needed this too.

Like in my life, I was at a point where I was on it too much.