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How Dopamine Is Distracting You From the Life You Want

A month ago I was an avid TikTok user. I was trying to grow my reach on the platform which meant creating 4 videos a day, monitoring the…

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Joe Gibson
Nov 07, 2023
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A month ago I was an avid TikTok user. I was trying to grow my reach on the platform which meant creating 4 videos a day, monitoring the latest trends, and obsessively checking my phone to see how well my videos were doing. I was hooked and it was taking up a lot of my time.

It was disrupting my day and my mood — but …

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