@MurrayHillGuy1 The blue texter has a sense of humour and the other person should kill herself because no one will ever fall in love with such a boring cunt.
@pS4turn@KeloidKrown@Wrexham_Red@MarcChuck@Footballtweet I’m white but this is hilarious. Smell like pennies and pig skin when it rains 😭😭🤣🤣
Nah, but for real, you guys are right. I use SPF 50 moisturiser every day. I’ve seen my fellow Mayonnaise Monkeys looking 85 at 40 — I don’t wanna go out like that 😭😭 lol
@RyanHoliday 1K bookmarks but only 600+ likes. The people who most need to read this are either never gonna get around to it, or they're gonna copy and paste the body of it into ChatGPT and write: "Condense this and give me the next actionable steps." 😭😭😂
The brain fog and distraction are downstream symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system.
Here’s what’s actually happening neurologically.
Every time you pick up your phone, you get a micro-hit of dopamine. Dopamine is the anticipation chemical. Your brain releases it before you find anything interesting, not after. So the scroll itself becomes the reward loop, regardless of what you see.
This creates a specific pattern:
Low-grade stimulation → dopamine release → temporary relief from baseline anxiety → tolerance builds → need more stimulation → phone check every 30 minutes → phone check every 10 minutes → phone check while eating, phone check in bathroom, phone check before your feet hit the floor in the morning.
The brain fog is your prefrontal cortex running on empty. That part of your brain handles attention, planning, and impulse control. It requires stable dopamine levels to function. When you’re constantly spiking and crashing dopamine through variable reward schedules (which is exactly what social media feeds are), your baseline dopamine drops. You feel foggy because your executive function is literally impaired.
Huberman’s protocol addresses this at the mechanism level.
In the morning, delay phone use for 60-90 minutes after waking. This allows cortisol to peak naturally, which sets your circadian rhythm and prevents you from hijacking your morning dopamine with artificial stimulation.
Throughout the day, introduce deliberate boredom. No phone during meals. No phone during walks. No phone while waiting. This sounds like torture because it is, at first. You’re letting your baseline dopamine reset by removing the constant micro-hits.
Your dopamine receptors downregulate when overstimulated. You need roughly 30-48 hours without high-dopamine activities for measurable receptor resensitization. Receptor density actually recovers when you stop flooding the system.
Cold exposure accelerates this. 30-60 seconds of cold water increases baseline dopamine by 250% for hours afterward, without the crash that follows phone use.
You’re fighting a nervous system that has been trained to expect stimulation every few minutes. Retrain the system first. The behavior change follows.
@SantiAFC1994@NFLFrascella I agree. Watched it twice. First section feels like an extended prologue. Film gets going when the grown-up daughter is introduced and is relentless for about an hour... third act is slightly weaker (and not as compelling as the middle) but still better than the first.
Something I learned as a dad is that being active with your kids requires sacrifice & saying “yes”. What I mean is that you choose to play with your kids even when, especially when, you don’t want to.
I’d say 9 times out every 10 times my kids ask me to play with them, I genuinely do not want to. I would rather rest or keep up the house or the laundry or a project. I would almost never play with my kids if I only played with them when I wanted.
I know some dads are just naturally better as people than I am & can’t relate to this struggle. But if you can relate, I say try to say Yes to playing with your kids 5 out of 10 times they ask. That means for me, 4 of those times I say yes, I don’t actually want to play.
And most of those times I said “yes”, I did not regret it, whereas many times I said “no”, I felt like I wasn’t being there for my kids.
@conduct_rr I agree. Judd Apatow said people (especially younger people) aren't comfortable in silence and this is what's hurting their imagination. He said: "You can tell that they don’t allow anything to come forward because they’re just constantly filling all the mental space."