On the habit regarding social media and abstaining during the day.
Remember: It’s not the single check of social media (Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) it’s the trajectory for the day, to let you mind crave cheap-dopamine, once you take that first hit.
Abstaining completely for the day until evening is doable. But re-abstaining over and over again during the day is much harder if you took that first hit. So when it comes to social media during the day total abstaining is the way to go.
Regarding Social Media
All these (social media) companies are very smart. They have very good data scientists. They have very good UI specialists … You’re bringing a knife to a gunfight if you think you can use your self-control to keep your use of Instagram to, say, 10 minutes - tim-ferris/pod clip
Link to original~If you can’t be bored for 5-10 minutes, then it makes you very fragile and makes you very easy to manipulate. tim-ferris/podclip