Rob Dial

It feels like nonstop notifications, 24-7 news,

constant background noise, whether that's people talking or whether that's car sounds, whether that's the TV on in the background, whether that's music playing, whether that's people in the background, you're getting dopamine hits from social media, you're getting cortisol from all of the worries that you're thinking about in the future, and your brain's on high alert all day long, every single day.

It just was not designed for this.

So if you're one of those people who feels like, man, I just have no energy, I'm exhausted all the time, I'm tired, I'm a little bit irritable,

it might be that your brain needs a freaking break because your brain wasn't built for it.

And over the thousands of years that it's evolved, our brain's more used to natural, gradual, slow changes in the environment.

not TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Slack, phone notifications, email inboxes, text messages and DMs and group chats from your friends and Instagram and podcasts and having a to-do list that will never be finished.

having unfinished tasks, worrying about things coming up in the future, your perfectionism, what people are thinking about you, what they're not thinking about you, your self-criticism, the voice that's going on in the back of your head all the time.

And then you're in a meeting with your boss.

And then at the same time, you also see the TV has breaking news about some crazy thing that just happened in instant drama and constant urgency.

It's way too much, man.

And so there's tens of thousands of distractions every single day.

And I'm not being sarcastic when I actually say tens of thousands.

I had to do research of like how many distractions and things are coming into our brain throughout the entire course of the day.

And here's what I found, right?

There's a lot of research on this.

Research shows that modern humans are processing way more than we can, like trying to process way more than we can every single day.

You know, when you look at notifications that somebody receives in a day, at least 65 to around 150 every single day.

How many times the average person pick up their phone every single day?

Between 96 to 144 times a day.