Author:: [[Modern Wisdom]] Category:: #📷 URL:: [https://youtu.be/HYiG2m8fSiE?si=7gE77NalP9Hi3s3U](https://youtu.be/HYiG2m8fSiE?si=7gE77NalP9Hi3s3U) # How To Free Yourself From Screen Addiction - Dr K Healthy Gamer Video games, social media, porn use, and drugs, can all be used in different ways to avoid your emotions in real life. An addiction is anything you are mentally or physically reliant on that provides some short term benefit at the cost of long term. However, one of the big things that is fascinating is all of these addictive activities or substances can actually increase our negative emotion as well if taken to the extreme. Ask any gamer if they are having fun four hours into a gaming session and many will likely be irritated, slumped, tilted. Sometimes we go on social media just to see what friends or distant associations are doing that is more fun than us. The solution to this technology over use is both mental and environmental. [[To learn to navigate addiction, you must become okay with boredom]][[The best cure to most addictions is purpose]] Believing that _hard_ work is always the solution to achieving your problems is a toxic cycle. First, the people that spout hard work as being the solution are suffering from cognitive dissonance. If we invest tons of effort into something we feel the need to validate our effort. Those that didn’t have to expend that much effort don’t feel as much of a need to talk about it. Second, they are suffering from survivorship bias. If you take a hundred people and put them through a rigorous training program some people will come out looking amazing. Of course they will, it was a hard program. But what you aren’t looking at is the churn rate. How many people didn’t succeed? How are these people going to feel if you tell them they didn’t succeed because they “didn’t work hard enough.” That makes it their fault rather than the design of the training program. Sometimes the easy path is better. Ask yourself, how can I make this easy?