The Three Scientific Reasons You Shouldn’t Check Your Notifications
It’s a psychological dependency that’s ruining your day.
There are three reasons you shouldn’t check your notifications. All three are bad, and all three are avoidable by the simple expedient of not checking our phones. But this is hard. Why?
First, you’re paying one of the few remaining free currencies — your attention. There’s a limited amount of time in a day and social media is fighting you for it.
The second is mood dependency. Notifications are directly linked to your mood swings. I don’t know about you, but I do not like being psychologically manipulated by tech giants.
What’s the third reason? There are thousands of people whose job it is to break down whatever barriers you have in place to using social media. Their paycheck stems directly from ensuring that you’re hooked.
1. It’s no coincidence the phrase is “Pay Attention.”
Has this ever happened to you?
