Young fastlaners: SHUT DOWN ALL SOCIAL MEDIA

[heavy_industry]

Important note:​

The internet is the most powerful communication tool in the history of mankind.

All powerful tools are inherently dangerous and need to be used properly.

There is a huge difference between using a tool, and being crushed by it. It all depends on how you use them.

This thread is not about demonizing certain technologies, or black and white thinking.

I'm not saying anything is inherently good or bad, but what I am saying is that a lot of people are using these tools in a way that is not conducive to good mental health and positive business results.

If you're using various platforms to improve your business, further your education, connect with people, and improve the quality of your life - that's great. You are using these tools in a smart way.


However, you find yourself spending the entire day glued to a screen, heavily addicted to watching pixels move around, and you're wasting your time, energy, life, and you're feeling horrible as a result of your behavior, this thread might be of interest.

Target audience:​

Beginner fastlaners that don't have anything positive to gain from being on social media or other entertainment platforms, and are just suffering as a result of this unnecessary addiction.

The large number of forum posts in which beginner fastlaners complain about this issue, is a clear indication that this problem is widespread, even among people that are actively trying to build a better future for themselves.

If we want to be the 1%, we cannot behave like the 99%.

Let's explore this idea.

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Young fastlaners:​

SHUT DOWN all the social media, and the bullshit apps that are not helping you on the entrepreneurial path that you've chosen.

Don't aim for moderation, don't try to find any balance, because the is no such thing.

Everything has been designed from the ground up to be highly addictive and to grab your attention for as long as possible, in the hopes of you clicking on a stupid ad or buying some bullshit that doesn't help you in any way whatsoever.

Besides the huge amount of wasted time and energy, that cannot be recovered, you are very likely to become addicted to those apps.

If you let this happen, physiological changes to the brain will occur, which will result in the impairment of the prefrontal cortex.

This will result in the following symptoms:

• poor executive function (translation: can't do the F*cking work)
• goldfish attention span
• no focus
• low energy / low motivation
• poor long-term planning ability
• bad choices

You can't be successful in anything, but especially in business, if your brain is not firing on all cylinders.

These changes are not permanent, and they can be fully reversed if you stop everything right now.

In a few months time, your brain will be back to normal, and you will be amazed at your new-found motivation and superior cognitive function.

If you want to be the 1%, you can't do what the other 99% is doing.

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All the information that you need can be found on this forum.

Let this be your "social media".

You will learn many useful things that are nowhere to be found anywhere else on the internet.

(Just don't get addicted to the forum, and don't turn it into an action-fake)



Thanks @Matt Lee for inspiring me to write this post.
Check out his comment here.

 

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[heavy_industry]

Very important, ask me how I know

In the same vein (vane? vain?) here’s a video about a thing. It’s pretty neat. Did it a week or so ago and have to say it was very worthwhile.

View: https://youtu.be/gh2m0dj_lFk

I stopped watching the video after the first 30 seconds when I've heard the term "dopamine detox".

This is a made up term created by people that don't understand anything about neurology.


I don't want to write my PhD thesis here, so I'll keep it short:

• the more "internet fun" you have, the more unhappy you will be
• anything that artificially raises your dopamine without requiring a substantial amount of effort is highly destructive and highly addictive
• the dopamine reward circuitry requires 3-6 months to heal
• shut down all social media

The solution:
Go outside, make new friends, pick up a sport, train hard, start a business.

Life needs to happen.

 

[SDE]

99% of the time, you won't miss anything important by quitting social media

 

[MJ DeMarco]

A drug kingpin who sells heroin to the peasants doesn't snort his product. He is the producer and lives in a mansion with a Rolls parked on the driveway. You are the consumer and live in a trailer with a Honda parked on the gravel.

Social media is exactly the same. Yes, EXACTLY.

 

[Kak]

True!

I have lived a life pretty much devoid of social media at this point. I have danced with it enough to know I don’t want it in my life.

For my cigar box company, I had an instagram, back when instagram with THE thing. I found myself needlessly scrolling always felt like I had to snap out of it. I eventually broke the habit. I ultimately sold the company and the instagram went with it.

Then I got a Twitter for my radio show… I found I would needlessly scroll it, I also found that it would piss me off beyond belief. It robbed me of my peace. I deleted it after I built a pretty nice following. I made a new one maybe a year later when Elon bought it, but haven’t installed it on my phone and haven’t posted anything in months.

I also got a TikTok for the radio show and found I couldn’t control myself with that either. Deleted it from my phone.

Then I got Facebook pretty much so I’d have access to marketplace. I get stuff and sell stuff on Craigslist all the time and I heard that Facebook marketplace is better. They have the short videos you get looped into and it is the most addictive thing I’ve ever had. Deleted it from my phone.

There are ZERO social media apps on my phone and thankfully I have noticed it is a problem early. I can’t imagine wasting years on social media or video games.

My advice is to delete absolutely everything you don’t need for business and live in the real world.

 

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[Andy Black]

You can't consume your way onto team producer.

If you use social media for business then I suggest removing the apps from your phone and only using them on your computer. Log in, do your task, log out.

 

[Andy Black]

I don't have social media apps on my phone. I only log into them on my computer, and that's more for work.

 

[heavy_industry]

However, if you're using social media as a tool instead of an entertainment then it is a highly profitable endeavor.

Of course there are some use cases for social media, some being business related.

But there is a huge difference between using a tool and being crushed by it.

For all fastlaners that don't need to rely on this as your business platform:

SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING

Regain control of your brain and of your life.

 

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[Prdgy]

Semi-agree to this. If you're using social media to endlessly scroll when you could be doing better things (which 99% of teenagers are doing; I'm looking at you, past me) then yes, absolutely delete your social media accounts. It's gonna take some rewiring to get that social media muscle memory ridden of but IT IS ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT.

However, if you're using social media as a tool instead of an entertainment then it is a highly profitable endeavor. If your market is other young people or people in their 20s and even 30s, social media is still a great way to reach out to a very wide audience, imo.

Imagine you're selling an eraser with pop culture designs on it. Who would buy this kind of stuff? Teenagers. What platform will you most likely find these kinds of people on? Tiktok and Instagram.

 

[Matt Lee]

However, if you're using social media as a tool instead of an entertainment then it is a highly profitable endeavor. If your market is other young people or people in their 20s and even 30s, social media is still a great way to reach out to a very wide audience, imo.

100%. Nuances exist in every polarize opinion. Right?

Social media is great if you're producing.

But there's nuance in that too... Even if you produce on social media platforms, there's the danger of being addicted to the platform itself as @Kak mentions.

For my cigar box company, I had an instagram, back when instagram with THE thing. I found myself needlessly scrolling always felt like I had to snap out of it. I eventually broke the habit. I ultimately sold the company and the instagram went with it.

If you sell hardcore liquor, who to say you won't take a small sip on a bad day? (and then maybe another the next?)

I think the answer is always: self-awareness. You need to understand yourself and your degree of neuroticism. It takes reflection and being able to draw boundaries before the thing becomes a slow-acting poison, but everything worthwhile takes thinking. Right?

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The argument here is: don't be a consumer on these social media platforms.

If you need to consume something, be selective of it and make sure it's controlled because...

Someone once said the things you consume usually end up consuming you. I lied it's actually ...



Similarly, what you see and watch WILL live in your head even when you don't think about it consciously. Ever heard of subliminal messaging? (IDK if I believe in it but I do know reading and hearing about useless things makes me feel horrible). These things whether you like it or not influence your actions and mood.

An angry Reddit post turns you into an angry and aggressive peon IRL. Watching girls twerking on Tiktok will make you want to go open the blasphemous hub.

I haven't gotten the itch to do something that drains my energy while using this forum, EVER. The only itch I've gotten is "Why the F*ck am I not working harder. I need to put my head down. I will get this result too".

Sometimes the itch is just to write posts like this, to test my 3rd-grader vocabulary and ability to string coherent sentences together, to entertain, inform, and possibly ingrain what I write into my own head. Self-hypnosis. (But it sure beats being resentful and thinking I'm not in control of my life as I watch some self-hating person ranting.)

 

[dominicmarcu]

then in the same breath, we are asking ourselves why half of the kids in school are on psychiatric medication and suffer from crippling depression and anxiety.

From first and second-hand experience, I can confirm that social media and videogame addictions are the largest contributor to the youngest generation's high levels of depression, anxiety, etc. and the low levels of testosterone and motivation.

Videogames especially give such an extreme amount of dopamine that ANYBODY would get hardcore addicted in a couple of weeks.

"One 1998 study showed that video games raise the level of dopamine in the brain by about 100 percent, roughly the same increase triggered by sex."

Too much screen time has been linked to:

• Obesity
• Poor sleep or insomnia
• Behavioral problems, including impulsive actions
• Loss of social skills
• Violence
• Eye strain
• Neck and back problems
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Difficulties with work or school

 

[Kak]

I’m honestly convinced the matrix media both social and traditional is more dangerous than most illicit drugs. I’ve seen people become incredibly ensnared by it and noticeably harmed.

All with some FOMO mission. They “need” to know “what is going on.” Some even think they’re getting smarter. The biggest danger is people don’t see it as massively harmful addiction that it is.

I’ve asked this before, would you quit watching the news for $1m cash? How about the news and social media?

Most people would say yes. The funny thing is the return on the decision to ditch that crap, particularly at an early age, probably means more than $1m.

Programmed ≠ smarter.

 

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[Kevin88660]

If you are addicted to something. Don’t seek moderation. Shut it off.

I don’t keep snacks or ice cream in fridge. Because I can finished them all while doing work or watching something. Not an issue when I was a teenager who grew fast…

There is no need for me to quit social media as I hardly log into them. Hard to get addicted to see average person posting about their new life events and oversea trip photo.

You need to pay me money to watch these.

One man’s cocaine is another man’s poo poo.

 

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[Kak]

You're making me blush.

I didn't expect this response from the forum, to be honest.

Seems like this is a much bigger problem than I've imagined. Perhaps because there are a lot of young people on the forum that have been exposed to the bullshit lifestyle that has now become the new normal.

Not surprised at all that veteran fastlaners share the same opinion, and have taken steps to prevent this problem from happening.

If we want to be the 1%, we cannot behave like the 99%.

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But beyond the (temporary) impairment in cognition, this thing has been proven to lower the quality of our life. I'm sure a lot of us can relate to this.


Our brain is wired in such a way that pain and pleasure are two faces of the same coin. That's a basic fact of our biology.

• Pursue only pleasure, and you will end up with pain.
• Pursue hardship and challenge, and you end up with satisfaction, fulfillment, and success.

Some of the darkest moments of my life happened while being surrounded with digital entertainment.

While the most wonderful moments of my life, happened when I was working hard on a project I found meaningful. Pure joy and happiness. It's indescribable.

So let's turn off the bullshit, and let's get back to work.


So, beginner fastlaners:
(this is not financial advice)

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You can cut limbs off with power tools. You could drill holes in yourself with power tools. You can autonailer your face. You can tablesaw your torso. You could lop a leg off in 5 seconds with a chainsaw. You can also build stuff, and civilize the world with tools and equipment. The important thing to remember is to respect the power.

A phone should be viewed with the same respect. An amazingly powerful tool that can make you wealthy or make you worthless.

Own your phone. Don’t serve it… Make it serve YOU!

 

[MTF]

My thread on a similar topic was a bit controversial when I posted it but I guess the world is waking up:

HOT! - RANT - Social Media Destroys Entrepreneurs. Grow Your Business Without It.

For most entrepreneurs few things are worse than social media. You think it’s helpful while it’s a parasite that slowly kills you and your business. Social media platforms have spent millions and millions to persuade us that they’re indispensable for business. If you don’t exist on social...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

In an effort to challenge my beliefs I did engage in social media after posting that thread (I tested Instagram) and it didn't work business-wise or (particularly) personal-wise. It just makes you feel like absolute shit plus the amount of time you waste is ridiculous.

And as others have said it here, you can't win against the smartest engineers in the world. You just can't. No matter how disciplined you are, all the viral content is designed in such a way that it appeals to every human being. If you spend time on social media (particularly the worst ones: TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook), you'll get sucked in, guaranteed.

I'll never build a business that relies on social media.

I'd rather have the world's most boring business than be exposed to the narcissism and toxicity of social media.

This stuff is getting worse and worse, with more polarizing and dumber content every day.

If you want to make it on social media (as an individual creator) it pays to be the most extreme and most polarizing person. No subtlety is allowed.

It all has to be black or white, with whatever you're selling the only miraculous drug. Then people who watch you regularly become your little versions and you end up with a world of extreme black-and-white-thinking clones of the biggest influencers.

There's a fascinating article about it:

The age of average — Alex Murrell

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla

www.alexmurrell.co.uk

You can scroll to "People all look the same" for just the part about the impact of Instagram on how people (want to) look.

 

[Andy Black]

What if I had seen what I see now, if I had became a learning prodigy and read boatloads of books instead of posting and reacting to tens of thousands of useless social media posts?

Reading boatloads of books without taking action is still being on team consumer. Those who post intentionally and regularly on social media end up moving onto team producer. You had/have some social media accounts with decent size audiences Mike, and you know how to grow those audiences. Those are valuable assets and skills imo. Be careful you don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

 

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[heavy_industry]

Has anyone switched to a dumbphone for mental clarity?

I'm using my smartphone as a dumbphone with 3 modern functions:

• camera
• map
• music player

This is how they were intended to be used in the first place. Not sure when and how the society has degenerated into a crowd of zombies glued to their phones as if it was an extension of themselves.

And then in the same breath, we are asking ourselves why half of the kids in school are on psychiatric medication and suffer from crippling depression and anxiety.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Well if the government is acknowledging the issue, you know it's bad. And those poor teens who succumb to this will have their brains rotted away by age 21, likely becoming the perfect pharmaceutical customer for life.

The bar for success will be lowered, and then reserved for anyone who has the mental fortitude to steer clear of this mental mine-field.

 

[Kak]

I'll ask this while the thread is active.

Has anyone switched to a dumbphone for mental clarity?

I feel like I'd be much better off with my smartphone being turned on only for few tasks and then turned off again, but I still need to keep in touch with some people.

Nah. My full communication capability in my pocket is important to my business.

As a matter of fact, I’m pretty outspoken about replacing phones with the newest and best available, at the slightest hint sluggishness or battery problems.

I currently have a 13 Pro Max and it’s the longest I’ve ever had a phone. Maybe 18 ish months.

I also want to make something else clear about my earlier post. When I say I don’t partake in social media, it isn’t because I’m constantly only working on business. Like, “I need more hours in the day to do it.” It’s more that I want to live life outside of the cyber matrix.

This forum and my radio show are the only places I share anything publicly.

 

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[Kak]

If we want to be the 1%, we cannot behave like the 99%.

Should be the anthem of this forum.

 

[heavy_industry]

Motion to goldify the thread. @MJ DeMarco

You're making me blush.

I didn't expect this response from the forum, to be honest.

Seems like this is a much bigger problem than I've imagined. Perhaps because there are a lot of young people on the forum that have been exposed to the bullshit lifestyle that has now become the new normal.

Not surprised at all that veteran fastlaners share the same opinion, and have taken steps to prevent this problem from happening.

If we want to be the 1%, we cannot behave like the 99%.

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But beyond the (temporary) impairment in cognition, this thing has been proven to lower the quality of our life. I'm sure a lot of us can relate to this.


Our brain is wired in such a way that pain and pleasure are two faces of the same coin. That's a basic fact of our biology.

• Pursue only pleasure, and you will end up with pain.
• Pursue hardship and challenge, and you end up with satisfaction, fulfillment, and success.

Some of the darkest moments of my life happened while being surrounded with digital entertainment.

While the most wonderful moments of my life, happened when I was working hard on a project I found meaningful. Pure joy and happiness. It's indescribable.

So let's turn off the bullshit, and let's get back to work.

 

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[mikecarlooch]

To add to my first response, this topic needs to be talked about way more.

Listen, I know social media has done SO MUCH good for the world in many ways.

But, it needs to be said that spending endless time on social media can be absolutely life-ruining, and I wouldn't say that about many things.

The most INSANE part is the following - what the hell makes ANYONE think that us humans right now are any different from humans 200,000 years ago..? Our brains are EXACTLY the same as them.

That is so overlooked. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but a video is worth 10,000 pictures - and by scrolling on social media we're overloading ourselves with ridiculous amounts of stimulating information.

How could we possibly think straight after spending an hour on social media? You just can't.

People like Gary Keller have written books on focusing on ONE task at a time - and social media feeds are making us focus on thousands of things.

I was reading a book recently that was talking about Albert Einstein. Do you think, if Albert Einstein spent even just 1-2 hours per day scrolling on TikTok, overloading his brain, that any of his theories would have ever come to fruition? Probably not.

Would Benjamin Franklin be able to cultivate the social intelligence he had? Probably not - you can't play chess if your mind is distracted.

A lot of our creativity is stifled and our abilities to make relationships and connections between things becomes limited.

We are made to FEEL like we NEED to use social media otherwise we're going to miss out on tons of business opportunities and all that stuff.

I believe @MJ DeMarco said - Social media is simply a marketing tool, it is not business in itself, it is not a necessity.

 

[mikecarlooch]

i sometimes wonder what would’ve happened if instead of 10 year old me having a smart phone dropped into my lap, I had unscripted dropped in to my lap.

What if I had seen what I see now, if I had became a learning prodigy and read boatloads of books instead of posting and reacting to tens of thousands of useless social media posts?

The beauty of it though, is that whatever age we are, at least us at 30,40,50 will be on a completely different, non-addicted path.

I think it’s actually a good thing for a lot of people to go through at a time in their life even though in todays day and age constant scrolling is inevitable.

I got to a point where it got so bad that I literally had a FTE. My FTE was my social media addiction. That wasted time hurts my soul like nothing else.

I sometimes wonder what Gen Z is going to do? Once you break out the competition is low. Dana white explains it well here:

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/qyt4nmZWsoQ?feature=share

 

[heavy_industry]

First gold!

Thank you so much @MJ DeMarco

I'd even say @heavy_industry 's post should be taken with a grain of salt. The advice to all young fastlaners to shutdown their social media is too black and white. As @Kak, myself, and others have said... it's a tool that can be harmful but still a tool.

Thanks for making me aware of this.

I've added a preface to the thread to add more context. The message and the target audience should now be more clear.

More specifically: The young fastlaners that don't have anything positive to gain from being on social media, and are just suffering as a result of this unnecessary addiction.

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Thank you everyone for engaging in this thread.

This has been a great opportunity for learning, and gaining more insight about this problem.

 

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[Raedrum]

I've been a weed smoker, and a video games and social media/bullshit content addict for years.

I'm trying to quit smoking for a certain time now, slowly gaining ground over my addiction, and when I finally did my intro in TFF some weeks ago, your very reply @heavy_industry about me banishing all toxics things from my life might have been the little spark I needed.

I still smoke, but like 10 time less than before. I AM NOT A WEED ADDICT ANYMORE.

I still have bad habits, but I'm working for my dreams more and more, despite years of frustation. I feel now capable of banishing every F*ckery from my life, eating fruits, drinking water, doing sport and dig over and over until I find gold.

I'm actually experiencing this renewed motivation and for someone like me, this feel like resurrection.

Thank you @heavy_industry for having taken the time to respond to my intro, it surely helped me greatly.

 

[Andy Black]

I'll ask this while the thread is active.

Has anyone switched to a dumbphone for mental clarity?

I feel like I'd be much better off with my smartphone being turned on only for few tasks and then turned off again, but I still need to keep in touch with some people.

I had one for a bit. I had no idea how often my hand crept to my pocket. I switched back though as I like using Basecamp, email, calendar, Google maps, banking, checking football results, etc.

I play with social media platforms on my mobile for a few weeks to see what it's like being a consumer. Then I'll remove the app and let my brain cells recover.

 

[heavy_industry]

Thank you so dearly for this insightful piece Sir. I usually find myself unhappy, depressed, and comparing myself to a host of people anytime I go there.

You're very welcome sir.
I'm glad that you've identified the problem and are now taking action to solve it. Life can and should be a wonderful experience, and we shouldn't get trapped in modern day nonsense.

And as per @MJ's recommendation, I started to read the gold and notable threads but I still feel unhappy reading them. Why? It always seems like others are doing extremely well everyday in their business and life and I'm just here not achieving anything tangible and not still knowing where to start.

Sorry to hear that sir.
I would advise that you stop getting sad by reading the gold threads, and get excited instead.

Why?
Because all the resources that are available on this forum are detailed instructions on how to start winning in life. Not only that, but they show you that it's entirely possible to create the life that you want.

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Thank you for sharing heavy_industry !

Thank you for being part of this community.
I'm glad that you've found this post useful. Now let's get back to work, we have a future to build.

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From personal experience, I would also extend your argument to a great lesson I learned from @Andy Black : the reduction of consumption in favour of production.

That's gold advice from @Andy Black

Join the team producer™! We have cookies!

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Is YouTube also a social media?

I only watch youtube when I'm eating or when doing research.

If you use this platform in a smart way, you can get a world-class education for free.

 

[Lexx]

Let me share a little story: there has been a period in my life where I consciously decided to not have internet in my home for roughly 2 years. If I needed internet, I was either going to a cafe or library to connect, do my thing and then return to my internet-less life.

I cannot remember a more proactive, driven, focused, determined, imaginative segment in my life than those 2 years of living without internet. And while one can say to oneself "eh, I'll control it, I'll manage it", well, without proper awareness, alertness and self-control, it's so easy to slip. Cause later on when I reinstalled Internet in my home, I went down a rabbit hole and snapping out of it years later asking myself "how the hell did it get to this? to waste so much of my time on basically nothing productive?".

Mind you, as @heavy_industry pointed out, the internet can be a wonderful thing if used with mindfulness and moderation, it is not this evil entity lurking behind your shoulder trying to grasp you, but social media has been designed from the ground up with an army of social psychologists (+time) to make it as addictive as humanly possible. Every single thing on the screen is placed and paced purposefully to keep you "in the loop" by triggering small doses of dopamine in your brain. Sadly, this can be applied to gaming as well to some extent. Just like gambling, if left unchecked, one can wake up one day with a serious addiction problem. I know it cause I've been there.

While I do keep a very reduced amount of social media in my life (for example I belong to various Facebook groups related to my professional interests), or keep in touch with people from other parts of the World via messaging, I rarely check the newsfeed because I know it's just a pile of useless junk for the most part. I've also hidden my date of birth so I won't wake up with random meaningless wishes from people I never met nor interacted with, and turned off any sort of notifications for them. Also, for a very long time, I've used a phone which was so old that nothing new from the app store could be installed on it.

To package this in a conclusion: information for the brain is like food for the body. We have to be mighty careful to eat stuff that nurtures us. Social media is for the most part like going multiple times a day to the worst fast food chain out there and slowly poisoning yourself with the highest addictive fatty crap imaginable.

A highly relevant article on this subject is Mice and dopamine , quote:

"When they press the button, a special optical sensor, which controls specific neurons in their brain, activates their dopamine neurons.

The mouse quickly start to show the tell tale signs of addictive behaviour as they happily keep pressing the lever to receive more and more dopamine.

“If after two hours we didn’t take them out of the cage, they wouldn’t eat, they wouldn’t drink, then they’d probably die quickly, but very happily,” end quote.

We are cognitive animals, but still animals susceptible to abuse of chemistry that leads to addiction, and not every entity on this Earth wants our well-being, especially when rampant greed comes into play.

 

[dominicmarcu]

Don't aim for moderation, don't try to find any balance, because the is no such thing.

I 100% agree, I always used to try to moderate social media use, but by a couple of days I'd be back to my usual amount.

Also, web browser add-ons like 'Cold Turkey' that block certain sites don't work at all because the only barrier is clicking twice to delete it.

 

[Hein Oosthuysen]

Young fastlaners:​

SHUT DOWN all the social media, and the bullshit apps that are not helping you on the entrepreneurial path that you've chosen.

Don't aim for moderation, don't try to find any balance, because the is no such thing.

Everything has been designed from the ground up to be highly addictive and to grab your attention for as long as possible, in the hopes of you clicking on a stupid ad or buying some bullshit that doesn't help you in any way whatsoever.

Besides the huge amount of wasted time and energy, that cannot be recovered, you are very likely to become addicted to those apps.

If you let this happen, physiological changes to the brain will occur, which will result in the impairment of the prefrontal cortex.

This will result in the following symptoms:

• poor executive function (translation: can't do the F*cking work)
• goldfish attention span
• no focus
• low energy / low motivation
• poor long-term planning ability
• bad choices

You can't be successful in anything, but especially in business, if your brain is not firing on all cylinders.

These changes are not permanent, and they can be fully reversed if you stop everything right now.

In a few months time, your brain will be back to normal, and you will be amazed at your new-found motivation and superior cognitive function.

If you want to be the 1%, you can't do what the other 99% is doing.

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All the information that you need can be found on this forum.

Let this be your "social media".

You will learn many useful things that are nowhere to be found anywhere else on the internet.

(Just don't get addicted to the forum, and don't turn it into an action-fake)

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Thanks @Matt Lee for inspiring me to write this post.
Check out his comment here.

Agree 100%. I would also add that any young fastlaner should assess their usage of things like video games and netflix.

It's easy to lie to yourself and say: "Oh, I'll just use it one hour a day to relax after some hard work". And then you end up spending multiple hours a day relaxing "a little bit" after some "hard work". Don't fool yourself.

About a year ago (I'm 21 now), I straight-up sold my Playstation after realizing I simply can not use it "in moderation". Best decision I made that year. It freed up so much time that I used to, among other things, dive into all my unread books I've gathered over the years. This inevitably led me to start reading MJ's books around December, properly exposing me for the first time to Fastlane ideas.
I'm willing to bet this would not have happed if I just kept lying to myself and flushed all my free time down the drain via video games.