Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

You are actively rewiring your brain for the worst by engaging with social media, high volume, quick videos. And the social media executives don't let their kids use this stuff because they designed it to be addictive, and they know that millions and millions of kids have been cyberbullied, sex storted, many have committed suicide. So I'm getting angry. And then from the medical perspective, it's rewiring your Body, increasing your risk of heart disease, and PTSD. We've moved too far into the virtual world and the results are catastrophic. People are spending roughly about six and a half hours a day on their phones. Well here's the amazing thing. We actually can control our fate. So we are joined by a social psychologist and a Harvard physician to dive into the technology addiction and brain rot crisis billions are facing worldwide. And how we can counter its devastating mental health effects. You have to reclaim your attention because without the ability to pay attention for several minutes at a time, we're seeing the destruction of human potential, the human relationships, the connection. But there's all these small tweaks that you can do to override that primal ursh's scroll that, for example. Ninety-one percent of people had an improvement in attention, well-being, and mental health. After just two weeks of

Continuing to use your device, but not having internet access. Next, keep your phone out of your arm's reach, because the sheer potential for distraction has actually been shown to change your prefrontal cortex, which is called brain drain. So yes, we should exert more self-control, but we're being pushed in addictive apps and it's messing us all up. That's not our fault. Would you advise people to delete? Oh my god, yes. That with the most important thing you can do for your intelligence and for humanity. But if I was gonna offer some specific advice, here are the three things that I do with my students to reclaim attention. And then to add to that, I have the three second brain reset. So first I wanted to ask you guys what you thought of this. Hey! You're back.

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