You Can't Dream About Your Phone - WHY?

And most of us, statistically, we're giving away 96 times a day this to a device that was engineered to take it away from you.

That's once every 10 waking minutes.

So like total touches or scrolls or whatever for your phone is 2600 per day for the average person.

And people who use their phones heavily are over 6,000.

When we're talking about scrolling on short form content, you scroll about the height of the Statue of Liberty every day with your thumb.

That's the physical labor you're performing for companies for free.

And average screen time in the US is now between four and five hours.

Four hours a day is 28 hours a week.

That's more than a full day of your life every week.

gone into a piece of glass and in a reality that's not even your real life.

If you run that across an entire year, you're at 60 days.

So this is two months of your waking life annually.

If you take a 30 year old, if you run that forward to age 80 at this current numbers, the person will like use their phone somewhere between eight and 10 years years of conscious existence, just while they're awake.

So a decade, that's the price.

And nobody really remembers agreeing to pay the price.

You didn't decide to do this.

A notification on your phone is a script interruption.

And that's all it is.

You're cooking, you're in the kitchen doing something, you're working, talking to your kid, and the buzz on your phone, the vibration, the noise cuts in half.

all the script that was running.

And we think like, oh, my focus drifted towards a phone.

Your focus was seized.

That's a seized level of focus there.

It's the same mechanism that kept your ancestor alive when the stick snaps behind the bush.

The phone is cracking a stick about 80 times a day on purpose.