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#2 - The neighbor that occasionally screams at his kids went out with a rake to clear the clogged drain that was flooding our parking lot. I peeked out my door and said, "Thanks!"
#3 - A family member got some concerning medical news earlier in the week, that sounds less frightening now that the doctor called and explained.
#4 - I am not skillful at being flexible with plans. There was a winter weather advisory today which changed my weekend plans, followed by a winter storm watch that may change them again.
After briefly feeling resistant to this yesterday, I did well today going with the flow and recalibrating, and I may have a travel window in between the 2 events.
Plus I spent a day fully at home which was kind of nice. The fitness center was closed for Passover so I did a growingannanas video. On Thursdays I have only 1 family home visit, they were sick. So I just worked from home today, spent a little time on my living room puzzle, and washed the clothes I bought at the thrift store on Tuesday.
#5 - "If you are exposed to a product that can't tell you the problem that they are solving, you need to be terrified, absolutely terrified. So if I look at Door Dash or Uber Eats, they get food to me faster. I don't have to leave my house. I don't have to do anything. I can continue writing my book or doing something on my computer, and the food just shows up. They tell you the problem that they are solving right?...But you look at something like Apple Vision Pro, they can't tell you. You will never see it. You'll see all the problems that a Mac book solves. There's this camera, it does all this, it does all these things. It helps you get this done faster. And you look at Facebook Meta, these AR googles, none of them will ever tell you the problems that they are trying to solve, because it's loneliness and people needing to anesthetize themselves from being in their own life. And we are in a loneliness epidemic right now, in the midst of, all this we've never been more connected but we've never had more loneliness than is in the world right now.
So and there is so many products that are out there, that seem great, but they can't articulate what they're really solving, and it is usually loneliness, boredom, or a need to anesthetize myself so I don't have to think about my life. I don't have to be in my life. And that should be one thing, if I could just program into everyone's head be so, I did this to my kids, just be so so scared and so cautious when I see a product or an app or anything, that's not openly advertising the problem that they are solving." Chase Hughes
"I mean there's a lot of entertainment apps right at the moment for young kids so that works." Steve Bartlett
"Yeah which is fine for boredom." Chase Hughes
"Is boredom a problem?" Bartlett
"It might be." Hughes
"I'm trying to distinguish between like, is TikTok solving a problem for a young kid?" Bartlett
"Right. So that might be solving loneliness instead of boredom. And I think TikTok does not talk about solving any problem." Hughes
"It's like a casino isn't it? The dopamine." Bartlett
"Yeah. It's so bad. And they use a hypnosis technique, not just Tik Tok, this is everybody, called fracturnation, which is where you bring somebody up, so like you'll see one of those videos of a Grandpa holding his Grandbaby like that makes you almost cry. Have you ever cried just watching a 60 second Instagram reel?" Hughes
"Yeah." Bartlett
"I have too and I feel stupid. I'm by myself, watching a 60 second video. But like they'll pull you down and then punch you back up 2 videos later. And you'll start to notice this. Two videos later, it will be a riot, someone robbing a store, a fistfight, a car going way too fast flipping off the road, an airplane almost crashing. So they get you up and down and up and down, and the more I can do that, this is proven, that ramps up suggestibility. Dr. Milton Erickson did studies on this in the 1960's, and that increases your level of suggestibility 10 like fold. The more I can get you up and down, and up and down. And what happens after you get like 4 or 5 cycles of up and down? You get an ad. And it's so reliable. And I didn't realize it was happening until my wife said, 'Why are you buying shit off Instagram like once a week?' It was working on me. I was buying stupid shit that was on Instagram ads, and then I finally set time limits on this apps." Hughes
"You set time limits on those apps?" Bartlett
"Yes, Yes. My wife has the passcodes to unlock the, whatever it's called, screentime, iPhone screentime. But I am a brainwashing expert and I am personally terrified of short form social media like that, and I am not immune. And I'm one of the best in the world. And I am not immune to it. And I think that should be a stark warning for a lot of people." Hughes
"What's the cost though? What's the cost of the like, in your view, living this kind of life where you know, we go home and we just like burn our brains out with these social media apps and fry our dopamine receptors. Is there like a cost?" Bartlett
"Yes I think the cost is increased loneliness. And these apps, any apps that sell ads has 2 main goals. #1 - and all advertising shares these 2 main goals. #1 - Make you compare yourself to other people in unhealthy ways. #2 - Make you think, 'I am not enough' and we see that everywhere. I'm not enough and I'm comparing myself to other people." Hughes
The Diary of a CEO around hour 1:45:00 or a bit after with Chase Hughes
https://youtu.be/RvjR9GM2kX8?si=f4f5nzPYbB8JXY2t
