240 - The Dangers of Instagram
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this episode, I talk about why Instagram (and motivation in general) can be dangerous for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, we are rounding out the year here. We've got just about one more week. |
| 0:05.0 | When are you going to go download your free guide to crushing it in 2018? |
| 0:09.0 | 2018 is right there. |
| 0:11.0 | Don't wait until the last minute. Head over to Tiny Leaves. Today right now and |
| 0:16.5 | download it. I'll see you there. In this episode I want to talk about the dangers of Instagram. |
| 0:23.4 | Well, really, it's the dangers of motivation. |
| 0:26.6 | Get ready, because you are now listening to tiny leaps. |
| 0:31.4 | Big changes. Please that girl and Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big change is where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life. |
| 1:07.6 | My name is Greg Clunice and in this episode I just want to rent a little bit about the dangers of Instagram. |
| 1:15.0 | More specifically, I want to talk about motivation. |
| 1:18.8 | Why it is not serving you, why you should aim to use it but not to rely on it and how you can tackle this. |
| 1:28.0 | You see the problem with motivation, the problem with our industry in general is that we've built a feedback loop on the back of |
| 1:39.6 | giving us small little hits of dopamine and serotonin. |
| 1:45.0 | We are constantly, constantly being fed these little tiny neurochemical hits that allow us to feel as though we've made progress to feel as though |
| 1:57.6 | we've moved forward in our lives but in actuality we have not we've just sort of stayed exactly where we are. And the reason I call |
| 2:04.8 | out Instagram for this is because they are the chief offender. You know, and I'm guilty of doing |
| 2:09.9 | this as well. Those pages that you might follow that have the quotes have the cool |
| 2:16.0 | story have the awesome picture like those pages the lifestyle pages, the the motivational pages. |
| 2:25.0 | All they're doing is as you're scrolling, |
| 2:27.0 | you're seeing the message, you feel a little bit of a pulse |
| 2:30.0 | of a neurochemical, |
| 2:32.0 | and then you don't do anything, and's it that's where it ends and then you come back for more a little bit later and then you don't do anything and you come back more a little bit later and then you don't do anything. |
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