#boredom

Arthur Brooks (professor at Vanderbilt University, senior fellow at Harvard Business School) argues phone-checking hijacks the same dopamine anticipation-of-reward circuitry as other addictions, and that constant stimulation crowds out the boredom needed to reach Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's flow state. He lays out a 3-step recovery framework and concrete protocols — tech-free times, tech-free zones, and periodic multi-day tech fasts.

via Your phone addiction is keeping you from achieving flow state | Arthur Brooks