TJ Power

And then we eventually find ourselves saying to our mind, like our instinctive mind comes on and says, put the phone down, like go do something else. And then you don't really want to. And then even if you do put it down, you just can't get yourself to do anything. So it's that symptom of paralysis, not being able to get going. Yeah. So what do we do?

And then we eventually find ourselves saying to our mind, like our instinctive mind comes on and says, put the phone down, like go do something else. And then you don't really want to. And then even if you do put it down, you just can't get yourself to do anything. So it's that symptom of paralysis, not being able to get going. Yeah. So what do we do?

I believe it all starts with how the beginning of your day begins. And it's really important to understand this. Throughout sleep, there's regenerative processes taking place that are creating elevations in dopamine as part of that restoration. And you can imagine this.

I believe it all starts with how the beginning of your day begins. And it's really important to understand this. Throughout sleep, there's regenerative processes taking place that are creating elevations in dopamine as part of that restoration. And you can imagine this.

All of our work is built upon this hunter-gatherer idea of a human being far before our world came, this modern world we live in, had to wake up and do hard things. It was so important to our survival. When we woke up, we'd have a nice amount of dopamine and we'd immediately take action and do challenging stuff. Nowadays, the opposite of that occurs.

All of our work is built upon this hunter-gatherer idea of a human being far before our world came, this modern world we live in, had to wake up and do hard things. It was so important to our survival. When we woke up, we'd have a nice amount of dopamine and we'd immediately take action and do challenging stuff. Nowadays, the opposite of that occurs.

We wake up, we've got this abundance of dopamine sitting there, and then it's straight to the phone. And I understand that this is hard to break. My whole work in this space comes from my own addictions to these things. Like I got an iPhone when I was like 11 years old. So to me, my whole life has been sitting on an iPhone, basically.

We wake up, we've got this abundance of dopamine sitting there, and then it's straight to the phone. And I understand that this is hard to break. My whole work in this space comes from my own addictions to these things. Like I got an iPhone when I was like 11 years old. So to me, my whole life has been sitting on an iPhone, basically.

And I spent 10 to 15 years waking up, going straight into the phone. And fundamentally, if you develop the discipline to have a 30-minute window before you go into the phone, and we can talk through what the steps in there would include to resist it, that's going to then set that discipline within your life to I have the capacity to resist it.

And I spent 10 to 15 years waking up, going straight into the phone. And fundamentally, if you develop the discipline to have a 30-minute window before you go into the phone, and we can talk through what the steps in there would include to resist it, that's going to then set that discipline within your life to I have the capacity to resist it.

And then once you start training this discipline in, your capacity to resist it in other times in your day will grow as well.

And then once you start training this discipline in, your capacity to resist it in other times in your day will grow as well.

Yeah. You had to earn the dopamine.

Yeah. You had to earn the dopamine.

You didn't have loads of novelty, loads of different stuff.

You didn't have loads of novelty, loads of different stuff.

I think right at the core of that, it comes down to, are you wanting a life where you're in the pursuit of pleasure and just momentarily feeling good? Or do you want a really happy, fulfilling experience of life? And I struggled a lot with various addictions. I struggled a lot with alcohol, as you and I have discussed, social media, pornography, all these very dopaminergic activities.

I think right at the core of that, it comes down to, are you wanting a life where you're in the pursuit of pleasure and just momentarily feeling good? Or do you want a really happy, fulfilling experience of life? And I struggled a lot with various addictions. I struggled a lot with alcohol, as you and I have discussed, social media, pornography, all these very dopaminergic activities.

And ultimately, if you really spend some time with your mind, I think you have to spend prolonged period of times in nature, chatting to yourself about your lifestyle. And if you start really considering like, is this current lifestyle I have where I work a bit and then I get my pleasure from my phone and then I do another activity and then I get my pleasure from my phone.

And ultimately, if you really spend some time with your mind, I think you have to spend prolonged period of times in nature, chatting to yourself about your lifestyle. And if you start really considering like, is this current lifestyle I have where I work a bit and then I get my pleasure from my phone and then I do another activity and then I get my pleasure from my phone.