Anti-notification

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”

Anne Lamott

The University of Pennsylvania conducted a study examining the correlation between mental well-being and time spent on social media.

They took 143 students at the University of Pennsylvania with some randomly assigned to either limit Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat use to 10 minutes, per platform, per day, or to use social media as usual for three weeks.

The findings were almost blatantly obvious, limited use shows significant decreases in anxiety and a significant improvement in well-being.

The notification has been ingrained in modern day culture so much that we become antsy if our phone does not buzz after a prolonged period of time.

Checking the time leads to checking texts and then you end up waist deep in your Twitter timeline.

Your self restraint must go further than not buying the Oreo’s at the grocery store.

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