TJ Power

Your slides are beautiful. I saw them.

Your slides are beautiful. I saw them.

I actually kept as that design role. I have a great guy on my team that supports me now with it to make it extra cool. But it was something that I wasn't necessarily good at, but it was something I liked and I found it interesting. And then you eventually, because if you have a brain that gets a big dopaminergic stimulation of that activity, you will eventually be extremely good at it.

I actually kept as that design role. I have a great guy on my team that supports me now with it to make it extra cool. But it was something that I wasn't necessarily good at, but it was something I liked and I found it interesting. And then you eventually, because if you have a brain that gets a big dopaminergic stimulation of that activity, you will eventually be extremely good at it.

But you just have to realize that you don't have to be good at something straight away.

But you just have to realize that you don't have to be good at something straight away.

I would say if we're putting it down to a few specific ones, phones, specifically social media, would be the largest factor, I would say, is number one. And then I would say ultra-processed food and sugar would be secondary to that. And I would say a lot of stuff then comes off of those two. If you look at the phone, it impacts...

I would say if we're putting it down to a few specific ones, phones, specifically social media, would be the largest factor, I would say, is number one. And then I would say ultra-processed food and sugar would be secondary to that. And I would say a lot of stuff then comes off of those two. If you look at the phone, it impacts...

Quasi of sunlight we get, the amount of exercise we do, it creates a really sedentary lifestyle and so on. So there's downstream effects. But I would say if you niched on someone creating extremely healthy relationship with social media, there would then be a big knock-on effect on their mood and energy and so on.

Quasi of sunlight we get, the amount of exercise we do, it creates a really sedentary lifestyle and so on. So there's downstream effects. But I would say if you niched on someone creating extremely healthy relationship with social media, there would then be a big knock-on effect on their mood and energy and so on.

One way you reduce significantly the frequency of engagement, not completely getting rid of it. You can do that. That would definitely serve you to get rid of it. But I think for a very significant proportion of society, they would like to continue to engage with the social media world. And when you look into it from a dopamine point of view,

One way you reduce significantly the frequency of engagement, not completely getting rid of it. You can do that. That would definitely serve you to get rid of it. But I think for a very significant proportion of society, they would like to continue to engage with the social media world. And when you look into it from a dopamine point of view,

Every single time you enter social media, you're experiencing this very fast elevation in dopamine. And that creates a really fast elevation and then a very quick crash as the brain seeks for its homeostasis, seeks for its balance.

Every single time you enter social media, you're experiencing this very fast elevation in dopamine. And that creates a really fast elevation and then a very quick crash as the brain seeks for its homeostasis, seeks for its balance.

Just to put that into context, to go back to that hunter-gatherer example, we only originally could experience that elevation in dopamine from successfully spending five hours building a hut or making a fire or hunting down an animal. So it was a very slow increase. We experienced pleasure.

Just to put that into context, to go back to that hunter-gatherer example, we only originally could experience that elevation in dopamine from successfully spending five hours building a hut or making a fire or hunting down an animal. So it was a very slow increase. We experienced pleasure.

Yeah, a nice, slow, steady decline. You might get two dopamine hits in the whole day. Wow. If you look at social media, you're effectively experiencing the same elevation in dopamine as a hunter-gatherer would after five hours of hunting, but you're experiencing it within three or four seconds from opening the app. Wow.

Yeah, a nice, slow, steady decline. You might get two dopamine hits in the whole day. Wow. If you look at social media, you're effectively experiencing the same elevation in dopamine as a hunter-gatherer would after five hours of hunting, but you're experiencing it within three or four seconds from opening the app. Wow.

And therefore, because it rises so fast and the brain is just thinking, wow, I can't deal with this overstimulation. After you come off social media, you get this really significant crash. This is called phasic and tonic dopamine. You get this really significant crash and that creates this low mood, low energy, inattention type experience.

And therefore, because it rises so fast and the brain is just thinking, wow, I can't deal with this overstimulation. After you come off social media, you get this really significant crash. This is called phasic and tonic dopamine. You get this really significant crash and that creates this low mood, low energy, inattention type experience.