TJ Power

You then have these really nuanced components of if you want to go into the meditation app, like I have these things that I want to do, I would open the phone, click the app, then un-aeroplane it so you haven't seen a notification, do your meditation, come back out, go away from the phone. But fundamentally, we've trained like 50,000 people in dose.

You then have these really nuanced components of if you want to go into the meditation app, like I have these things that I want to do, I would open the phone, click the app, then un-aeroplane it so you haven't seen a notification, do your meditation, come back out, go away from the phone. But fundamentally, we've trained like 50,000 people in dose.

It is so clear that if people have 30 minutes when they wait without going on their phone, it creates a radical shift in their experience of life.

It is so clear that if people have 30 minutes when they wait without going on their phone, it creates a radical shift in their experience of life.

the latest updates the latest news whatever it is and the anxiety and stress that you're taking on is is colossal for sure and the nighttime component is really key as well to consider like it's almost quite pleasurable just lie in bed and just like doom scroll your brain sleep we train a lot of schools and a lot of kids literally will just go to sleep watching tick tock that's just how their brain sleep and we look at all their screen times and some of them have like 16 17 hours a day of screen time but we look into that

the latest updates the latest news whatever it is and the anxiety and stress that you're taking on is is colossal for sure and the nighttime component is really key as well to consider like it's almost quite pleasurable just lie in bed and just like doom scroll your brain sleep we train a lot of schools and a lot of kids literally will just go to sleep watching tick tock that's just how their brain sleep and we look at all their screen times and some of them have like 16 17 hours a day of screen time but we look into that

And they're about nine to 10 hours in the daytime, but it's largely that TikTok just stays open throughout the night because if they wake, they then just click next video. So sound continues because a lot of us struggle with like the quiet effectively. If you need some kind of stimulation at nighttime, of course, like reading would be incredible.

And they're about nine to 10 hours in the daytime, but it's largely that TikTok just stays open throughout the night because if they wake, they then just click next video. So sound continues because a lot of us struggle with like the quiet effectively. If you need some kind of stimulation at nighttime, of course, like reading would be incredible.

If that's an option for you and you could achieve doing reading, that would be a perfect act. But if you were going to think, okay, I need some kind of stimulation, you want to think, how can I do something that's a little bit of a slower release dopamine activity that's still on technology? So for me, there will be evenings where I think, oh, I really want to watch a podcast, for example.

If that's an option for you and you could achieve doing reading, that would be a perfect act. But if you were going to think, okay, I need some kind of stimulation, you want to think, how can I do something that's a little bit of a slower release dopamine activity that's still on technology? So for me, there will be evenings where I think, oh, I really want to watch a podcast, for example.

If you were to sit and you were to put like a tablet across your bed and you would sit and watch a podcast, that's nowhere near as stimulating as like an Instagram Reels feed because the novelty is different. Like you sit and you watch a podcast. The first like five to 10 minutes, you're kind of getting into it and you're getting hold of the storyline and your dopamine is gradually increasing.

If you were to sit and you were to put like a tablet across your bed and you would sit and watch a podcast, that's nowhere near as stimulating as like an Instagram Reels feed because the novelty is different. Like you sit and you watch a podcast. The first like five to 10 minutes, you're kind of getting into it and you're getting hold of the storyline and your dopamine is gradually increasing.

You open social media, it's like rapid. Okay, now I'm in and I'm engaged. That difference is really important to understand because if we're just burning our dopamine before we go to sleep, it's highly likely we're going to wake up in this more deflated, low willpower type state. If you can have a slower dopamine technological activity at night, it's going to be better for those mornings.

You open social media, it's like rapid. Okay, now I'm in and I'm engaged. That difference is really important to understand because if we're just burning our dopamine before we go to sleep, it's highly likely we're going to wake up in this more deflated, low willpower type state. If you can have a slower dopamine technological activity at night, it's going to be better for those mornings.

It's really important to just understand that the brain chemical evolved simply to be earned over a long period of time. Like if you actually imagine the challenging activity, of being outdoors, you have a family, and you have to spend 10 hours in the cold building a shelter.

It's really important to just understand that the brain chemical evolved simply to be earned over a long period of time. Like if you actually imagine the challenging activity, of being outdoors, you have a family, and you have to spend 10 hours in the cold building a shelter.

Your brain wasn't designed to just give you a really quick dopamine hit because then you think, oh, nice, I feel good now, I'm done, far before the task was complete. So it evolved to slowly increase. Dopamine operates with these little vesicles in your brain. You can imagine them as little bubbles that go across your synapses.

Your brain wasn't designed to just give you a really quick dopamine hit because then you think, oh, nice, I feel good now, I'm done, far before the task was complete. So it evolved to slowly increase. Dopamine operates with these little vesicles in your brain. You can imagine them as little bubbles that go across your synapses.

those bubbles are designed to slowly transfer across the synapses as more and more effort is engaged. As soon as you open the social media, immediately a ton of those vesicles are rapidly going across the synapse. And that's why your brain is like, wow, this feels really good. Your brain starts thinking like, I'm not going to be able to cope with this.

those bubbles are designed to slowly transfer across the synapses as more and more effort is engaged. As soon as you open the social media, immediately a ton of those vesicles are rapidly going across the synapse. And that's why your brain is like, wow, this feels really good. Your brain starts thinking like, I'm not going to be able to cope with this.