260: Reclaim Your Life From Social Media

About this episode

The episode discusses the addictive nature of social media and offers strategies to manage its use.

Social media is great, except when it isn’t. Most of us enjoy what these platforms offer for entertainment and connection, and also find them hard to use in moderation. In this episode Joel and I explore what makes social media so addictive, some of the costs of excessive use, and the society-wide experiment that we’re unwittingly a part of. If you’re tired of spending much of your life stuck on a screen, try the behavioral strategies we discuss that can help you recapture more of your time and mental bandwidth. Get full access to Think Act Be with Seth Gillihan at thinkactbe.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Seth J. Gillihan

Guest: Joel

Topics covered

• social media addiction
• behavioral strategies
• mental health
• screen time
• self-improvement

Keywords

• social media
• addiction
• behavioral strategies
• mental bandwidth
• screen time
• self-improvement

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