Ep. 337: How (and Why) to Stop Doomscrolling
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Have you found yourself down the rabbit hole of social media lately? This week, I'm tackling doomscrolling and looking at how you can take strides towards less social media consumption and why it's important to do so.
I’ll be giving things to keep in mind about what social media is giving us these days, practical things that you can do to stop ‘doomscrolling’, why it doesn’t mean that you are bad person spending time in these apps, and the power of setting hard limits and letting go of the ‘all or nothing’ mindset as you regain power over your time.
What I said:
"Things start to change when we are willing to tell ourselves the truth."
"Setting the boundary is the easy part. Maintaining the boundary is the hard part."
"Be willing to set hard limits for yourself to break the habits."
Those Timestamps:
00:48 - Doomscrolling... and social media consumption dilemma
09:05 - Acknowledge what it gives you and pay attention to what it costs you
16:51 - Set a boundary for yourself
19:58 - Commit your time to the things aligned with your values
22:31 - Change your muscle memories (moving/deleting apps)
31:43 - Turn off email or push notifications
33:53 - Buy an alarm clock, set hard limits for yourself
37:32 - Give yourself grace... think beyond 'all or nothing'
40:12 - Remember that being on social media all the time means you're behaving as expected
Show Notes:
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| 0:33.2 | show. Hey, hey, y'all, it's Tiffany. Welcome back to raise your hand say yes. As always, thank you for |
| 0:39.3 | being here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for letting me show up for 337 weeks and share my |
| 0:46.9 | thoughts. So today what I want to talk about is dun dun dun doomsrolling. Now, if you don't know what doom scrolling is it is exactly what it sounds |
| 1:01.1 | like and it is something that i think that a lot of us have found ourselves doing so much in the last |
| 1:09.7 | few months and it's only getting worse. And here in the United States, |
| 1:14.7 | we are facing down the, oh gosh, what do we even call it? The impending doom slash hope |
| 1:27.3 | slash holding our breath for what might be the most important |
| 1:31.9 | presidential election and Senate election and all the elections in our nation's history. And |
| 1:39.6 | it is a really, really scary time to be here and also a very hopeful time and also a very |
| 1:48.6 | important time to not disengage, to not be checked out, to not numb ourselves to what's going on |
| 1:58.0 | so that we can be as potent and powerful as possible. |
| 2:01.5 | And what I have found for myself and what I've heard from so many people is the draw |
| 2:07.7 | towards social media and news consumption has gotten very, very strong, stronger than it has |
| 2:15.6 | been before. And let's face it, that draw has always been |
| 2:20.2 | strong. And so if you are somebody who is happy and content with your news and social media |
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