Delete TikTok if You Want to Be Successful
There’s no reason for a grown adult to have it installed on their phone.
Successful people don’t watch TikTok, just like athletes don’t eat fast food.
They’ll both give you a cheap hit of dopamine, but at a huge long-term cost.
Consumption of rapid short-form content will ruin your attention span. It reprograms your brain to expect new stimulation every few seconds, making it almost impossible to engage in deep work.
You’ll find it tougher to read a book if you’re too used to being entertained by TikTok. In fact, you’ll struggle to consume or produce anything meaningful, because you’re so used to constant stimulus.
You might find it more difficult to be happy too.
Studies show that overconsumption of hyper-stimulating online content can damage your dopamine receptors, meaning it’ll take more to bring joy to your everyday life.
This data was published in a fascinating book called The Shallows: What The Internet Does To Our Brain by Nicholas Carr.
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