Lewis Howes

Yeah, like detox, actually, is what it comes down to.

And the problem is, you know, you can't just recommend abstinence because, you know, somebody asks you, dude, I drink all the time.

You're going to say, stop drinking completely, obviously.

But you can't do that with your technology because you can't get into your bank account and that ship has sailed completely.

Which means you need moderation and it's a much harder thing to do.

But there's a lot of data, there's a lot of research, neuroscience research that shows how you can actually moderate your device use that will revolutionize your relationship to the devices.

You can solve this problem with basically three steps.

tech-free times, tech-free zones, and tech fasts.

That's all you need to do.

And the tech-free times are first hour of the morning, meal times, and last hour at night.

That's all you need, just those tech-free times.

Why?

Because of the neural programming that's going on first hour of the day, the neurochemistry of what's actually happening while you eat, which is that you're looking into other people's eyes,

while you're having a conversation.

We're evolved to do that.

Over the last 250,000 years, since the beginning of the Pleistocene, Homo sapiens have actually communed with their kin while they shove pieces of yak meat into their mouths around a fire.

If you see your phone on the table, it cuts off the neuropeptide that is occurring to bond you to others called oxytocin.

You cut the oxytocin flow by looking at your phone.

Literally, there's experiments that show this.

Last hour, yeah.