Tali Sharot

And so on.

He found that looking at every single measure of well-being,

People were happier, less anxious, less depressed after they quit Facebook for a month.

And what was interesting was that most of the people were surprised by this impact.

They kind of suspected before that probably it has a little bit of a negative effect on them, but they didn't realize how much of a negative effect it had on them.

And

What's surprising to me was that despite the fact that most people said, I'm happier now, I'm more likely, I have time to play the piano, to meet friends.

At the end of the month, they went straight back to Facebook.

So there seems to be something kind of addictive within social media.

But I think at the very least, at that point, they made an informed decision, right?

They had this experience of being out, breaking out, right?

Not being on social media, not being on Facebook for a month.

They knew how it felt.

And then they can make a decision of what it was that they really want.

And I think one of our points is kind of what we call experiments in living, right?

You really don't know what is really good for you or what is really bad for you until you kind of experiment and take.

So try to think about how can you change, how can you diversify your life to do these little experiments, to find what it is that you're not doing that could be quite great.

And what is it that you are doing that maybe is not that good for you and you might want to change?

Another point when it comes to dishabituation and what you could do is this interesting relationship between dishabituation and creativity.

So there are interesting studies showing that people who habituate slower tend to be more creative.