I’ve become so accustomed to using my time in the car between photo shoots as “office” time. Letting the car drive itself while I catch up on tasks like phone calls, texts, and emails. I could never go back to a truck that doesn’t have full autonomy.
most people think they need more willpower to break phone addiction.
you need to understand your nervous system better.
when you reach for your phone compulsively, your body thinks you’re solving a problem. you’re actually training it to need constant hits of artificial novelty to stay regulated.
the fix starts with recognizing the pattern: boredom → anxiety → reach for phone → temporary relief → cortisol spike → repeat.
break the loop by catching yourself in the anxiety phase. that 3-second window before you grab your phone is where change happens.
ask yourself: what am i actually trying to avoid right now?
usually the answer is: feeling uncomfortable with doing nothing.
and that’s the real work.
Phone addiction is cortisol, not a dopamine problem.
doomscrolling meets your unmet needs of novelty, connection, and excitement—temporarily calming your nervous system.
but because your phone doesn’t nourish you long term, cortisol increases. your bodies survival feels threatened because it believes it lost something.
the moment you lower overall cortisol, is the moment your phone addiction dies.
some practical ways to lower cortisol:
> dancing
> buteyko breathing
> daily breathwork
> eat enough carbs & sodium
> supp magnesium glycinate
> EMDR/bioenergetic exercise
> physiological sigh’s
> healthy social connection
> sprinting 1-2x weekly
save this for later + send to a friend who’s addicted to their phone lol.
All day yesterday I had folks tell me “that is a fake, there is a human in there”.
Well this was later in the show.
I will repeat once more: the only company in the US that can manufacture at scale and challenge robots out of China is:
@elonmusk and @Tesla.
We have no time.
the IQ pill is absolutely brutal.
Game Theory,
The Manhattan Project,
Quantum Mechanics,
Monte Carlo Methods,
Entirety of Modern Computing,
Entropy,
Numerical Weather Prediction,
Stochastic Computing,
you just can’t compete with this.