252. The psychology of doomscrolling
The Psychology of your 20s
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
There is a lot of terrible news out there, so much so that we could spend every hour of every day reading it and still not be done. What's worse is that we can now access that news at any time, any where, any place from our phones and this has lead to a phenomena known as doomscrolling. Doomscrolling may feel comforting, but it leads to more existential anxiety, stress and apathy. It's not great for our mental health. Today we break down:
- What are the different types of doomscrolling
- Why do anxiety and doomscrolling actually feed off eachother
- How social media and the infinite scroll keeps us addicted to negative news
- The consequences for our psychology
- How to maintain better news and social media hygiene
- The best practices for being informed but not overwhelmed
For my fellow doomscrollers who can't look away from the end of the world, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners, old listeners, |
| 0:07.2 | wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we of course |
| 0:13.3 | break down the psychology of our 20s. It is a pretty wild thought to realize that we have more information in our fingertips than any |
| 0:24.0 | generation ever before we are more in touch any terrible news story any terrible tragedy any |
| 0:30.6 | groundbreaking discovery niche profile piece like we can access that from our phones at any hour in any instance. And it's great |
| 0:42.1 | in many, many ways. We are very informed people, but it is quite frankly, not something that |
| 0:49.4 | humans have necessarily evolved to deal with. I was watching this YouTube video the other day. |
| 0:55.8 | Very, very random. |
| 0:56.7 | It's going to sound strange, |
| 0:57.7 | but it was like a day in the life of a medieval peasant. |
| 1:01.7 | And I was watching this video, and I was thinking, |
| 1:04.3 | this individual would have only had to worry about the world |
| 1:08.0 | that was 10 to 20 kilometers around him or her. They would only have |
| 1:13.0 | the information given to them by the church or by their neighbors or by whoever, their king, |
| 1:18.8 | their queen. They didn't know what was going on halfway across the world in Persia or Rome and |
| 1:25.4 | how that would affect them. They didn't know about the natural disasters in Asia or Africa or like the discoveries in Australia. |
| 1:32.5 | It seemed almost a lot simpler that way and it is such a privilege to have access to the |
| 1:39.1 | information that we have now and it's definitely improved the ways in which we are very |
| 1:43.7 | conscious global |
| 1:44.8 | citizens, but it has its downsides. And as people in our 20s, we are one of the first generations |
| 1:52.6 | to have grown up this way. We have grown up always having this constant information source |
| 2:00.3 | in the palm of our hands. and it's given rise to this |
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