Tristan Harris, he is a former Google design ethicist, and he said social platforms hire attention engineers who borrowed design tactics from casinos to keep users hooked.

You didn't sign up for a discipleship program, but when you woke up this morning, you're part of a discipleship program, right? And oftentimes we reach for our phones before we

reach for the Bible. Or we may say the Bible is on our phones, so we're going to reach for our

phone as an escape away, right? You mentioned that algorithm causing you to want something in a

harmless way by referencing a chocolate chip cookie, and in some ways, that's true and that's totally fine.

But where it becomes harmful is where it forces us to become dissatisfied with life.

And that happens.

Isn't the algorithm just something that's been around for many years?

I mean, we talk about wanting our attention.

That's exactly what advertisers has done for years, billboards, television advertisers. They want to make you feel discontent with that what you've got. They're satisfied with life. It's just omnipresent now. They've added technology to it. Yeah, it's just gone steroids, but it's not really wanting our attention. It's wanting a pocketbook. That's what's behind the wanting the attention.

Your attention to get your money because the love of money is the root of all levers.

So nothing's really changed.

It's the 10th commandment being violated.

So first of all, right, priority.

Determine that you're going to do what's most important first, or even sometimes the thing you want to do least.

It doesn't mean you hate it or it's, you know,

it just means that you know, as an example, the word or prayer

or devotions or whatever, you know that spiritually,

you know, the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.

You know that's the area where you're going to be drawn away toward other things. So you just say, that's going to be first. Before I watch TV, before I start surfing, before I start going down there. I have a problem though, is he? And it's generally. Maybe you could help me with it. And it's, this is honesty. I go, all right, so I'm going to get inside the word first before I go to social media. Yeah. And then I open up and I read a verse. And all I'm thinking about is checking my email. All I'm thinking about is going to that post to see how it's performing. And I've done the same thing, Mark, and here's what ends up happening. Because that's how I reason it. Oh, reason it oh yeah yeah because I'm so anxious I'm thinking I'll go do that and then come back then I could

have peace of mind it hardly ever works I go there and I'm hooked yes and it becomes almost legalistic

though right yeah and I set I set myself up almost for failure I did it the other day I'm going to

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