Episode 151. Is Food Obsession Dangerous?
Episode 151. Is Food Obsession Dangerous?
Join us for yet another podcast episode as we delve into the topics of obsession and investment. Likely not in the way you are imagining… We explore the connection between food obsession and the tendency to self-diagnose through social media. Discover why a healthy dose of obsession can be the secret ingredient to maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle.
We'll also discuss why we readily invest in gadgets and trinkets, yet hesitate when it comes to investing in our bodies and how the latter is far more beneficial for both our physical and mental health.
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Unknown
There is a lot lately popping up around obsession about food, whether it's, you know, obsession with bad food, obsessing with good food. I've even seen a few articles, like I said, people that are obsessed about good food and eating good food all the time. It's almost bad for you as well. Yeah, Like an eating disorder. Yeah. And I just want to sort of dive into that a little bit today because.
00:02:22:16 - 00:02:52:01
Unknown
Yes, it's true. But at the same time, it's not. That makes sense. It depends on the person as like everything we talk about on the show. Yeah. And definitely and like, I'm not allowed to call it psychologists. Somebody is almost a psychologist, but we're not trying to diagnose or tell you you're wrong. It's more just giving you an idea of a different way to look at these things because I don't think it's all always so black and white.
00:02:52:03 - 00:03:36:14
Unknown
And just because you're obsessing about eating good food and cutting out bad food doesn't mean you're mentally unhealthy. So we heard about this about social media the other day, and I thought it applied to food probably even more than social media. So this person was talking about how he's deleted social media off his phone because Instagram, for example, spend literally billions of dollars on making that app or Tik Tok or whatever, making the app so appealing to you that you your brain just automatically opens up and goes to whether you look, you open up your phone and you go to Tik tok.
00:03:36:15 - 00:03:59:05
Unknown
I do it all the time. All of the time. Even though you weren't that wasn't your intention. But they have design that app to do that. And like this guy was saying, you can't beat billions of dollars. Like your brain just is not strong enough to will that power they have over you through that app. So that's why he's deleted off the phone.
00:03:59:07 - 00:04:27:01
Unknown
And I thought that was a good point because food companies do the same thing, but I reckon they do it more tightly. It's more targeted, they spend more money, they design those foods so you eat them. And what I want to sort of say is and dive into if you don't obsess about the food you put into your body, somebody else is going to and that somebody else is.
00:04:27:01 - 00:04:53:23
Unknown
These companies spending billions of dollars on how appealing this food is. The packaging, the taste of the food. So you can't compete with that if you're just, oh, I'm happy with how I am and just blasé about it. Good. They can win and you're going to eat all those foods. So we did do an episode a while ago on Obsession, right?
00:04:53:23 - 00:05:25:02
Unknown
But I think it was body related. Maybe. Yeah. Now it should be on a spectrum. Is that where you're headed with this? Like, there should be, like a little bit of obsession is a healthy if it is true, if it's going to help you keep on track, make better choices, research a little bit more about food. But then if you take it to one end or the other of obsession, if you're completely obsessed with the food you're eating, then it's likely you'll gain weight, you'll be unhealthy, You will have more problems when you get older.
00:05:25:04 - 00:05:49:04
Unknown
And then if you are well and truly over obsessed, then that's when it would be classified as like an eating disorder and things more so in that category, right? 100%, yeah. And that's exactly where I'm going. So you've got to find a middle ground and obviously you're going to stuff that up sometimes, so sometimes you're going to go too far on end, not far enough, the other end.
00:05:49:06 - 00:06:23:24
Unknown
And that's okay. But the thing is, as long as you're thinking about it. One of our listeners sent an article through about a psychologist saying how, you know, it's bad to obsess about these good foods and that sort of stuff, and it's almost a disorder going in that direction. And yes, it is. But at the same time, I'd rather see people going in that obsessing about healthy foods for your body than the other way, because the other way is just putting you in a grave earlier where they're both equally, I think, as bad as one another.
00:06:24:01 - 00:06:46:14
Unknown
Both if you have a severe eating disorder, it's just as bad as being severely obese. Yeah, I agree. But I'm more saying making sure that we're talking about how it's so hard being vegan or vegetarian and you need to focus on every single bit of food that goes into your body to make sure you have the right nutrients, the right amount of food, the right amount of calories.
00:06:46:16 - 00:07:09:05
Unknown
So is that a bad thing? Yeah, you know what I mean? So if we've said this on the podcast before, we've tried to go vegan or vegetarian. Vegetarian, Yeah. And it was very hard eating enough food. And you do get obsessed with the food because you need to to get all your nutrients so you don't feel like garbage all day, every day, right?
00:07:09:05 - 00:07:35:00
Unknown
Yeah. Because like, yeah, whether you agree with it or not. But meat has a lot of good nutrients in it and they help a lot, you know, So try and replace that. Veggies is very hot and you have to obsess. And I was talking to one of the trainers I work with and she eats 42 different types of vegetables every single week because she's a veggie vegetarian or vegan or can't remember.
00:07:35:00 - 00:07:59:01
Unknown
But no meat or dairy products. So yeah, so she eats 42 different types of vegetables every single week, so she gets the right amino acids, the right amount of protein, the right amount of vitamins and minerals in her diet. So but if she didn't do that, she would be missing out on a whole lot. Yeah. So she's one of the only ones that I know that has gone.
00:07:59:01 - 00:08:22:05
Unknown
Okay, well, my body needs this vitamin. What veggie do I have to eat to get that? And she's added that in. So is that bad? Like, has she got a disorder? That's. That's what I feel like. A lot of these people on social media are sort of saying about the, you know, obsessing about foods. I'm like, well, at some point you do need to obsess about it.
00:08:22:07 - 00:08:56:23
Unknown
But I think definitely, yeah, I definitely know what you're talking about because I see it everywhere, not just in the realm of food on social media. So like people on social media are saying, love your body, work hard, you should be shredded. You should be happy with how you are. Like, there's so many vision of the spectrum that end of the spectrum, this and that and this and but also, like you say, obsession has a place and a similar thing is happening with on social media with ADHD at the minute.
00:08:57:00 - 00:09:13:21
Unknown
And it's the same thing is what's happening with people who are who it's pretty much people who care about what they eat. Like you can't win no matter what you do. If you care about what you eat and you show that, then people say you're obsessed and you're going down the wrong path and it's too much and you should live a little and everything.
00:09:13:23 - 00:09:38:10
Unknown
But it's the same with the with the ADHD thing. It's like you can't avoid it if you you can't avoid not being distracted. Everyone gets distracted a little bit, but there's just this big movement of self diagnosing on social media. That's what I'm trying to get at. So people are just like on TV talking. They're saying, I have all of these symptoms of ADHD.
00:09:38:10 - 00:10:08:22
Unknown
Like I can't concentrate, I feel agitated. I have to move all the time. And then other people are saying, Yeah, I've been diagnosed with ADHD and I have the same symptoms. So then people are self diagnosing. And I think that's happening with nutrition as well and things like insomnia. I'm seeing it happening as well. People are just self diagnosing themselves with insomnia because they can't sleep, self diagnosing themselves with probably like thyroid issues or whatever it is that is preventing them from being a better person.
00:10:08:23 - 00:10:34:02
Unknown
Right. It's just very easy to self diagnose when you see hundreds of people presenting the same symptoms that you have, but they are No. One on. There are medical professionals on TikTok, but not that many that I would trust. Right? So it's just I feel like you've got to take yourself out of what social media is saying, out of the situation, and just actually look at you, you yourself, what are you doing?
00:10:34:02 - 00:10:57:06
Unknown
How are you handling the situation? You as a person and your personality? Are you obsessing too much like you know yourself better than anyone on social media knows you, right? So you should be able to determine if the amount you are obsessing over your food is a healthy amount. And if you really can't and you have some sort of dysmorphia going on, then that's like another situation.
00:10:57:08 - 00:11:27:23
Unknown
But I think moral of my story is social media is very manipulative in what we think is a problem and what isn't what we think is right and what isn't. Does that make sense to you? Yeah, for sure. And everything you've listed takes practice. So concentration, you're not just going to have concentration like that. It takes practice to concentrate, to be able to concentrate on working a muscle yet.
00:11:28:00 - 00:11:51:10
Unknown
And that like if you're spending all your time on social media and no time practicing being present and focused, then yes, of course you're going to have symptoms or signs of ADHD and then symptoms insomnia. But how many clients have we had say, Oh, I can't feel sleep at night? It's like, well, when you lost coffee, what do you do before you go to bed?
00:11:51:12 - 00:12:11:08
Unknown
All these other things. It's not like you have this symptom. It's like, Well, you're doing everything that's wrong. Basically leading up to your sleep and but it's the same with food. So when I say it's set, like a lot of people will be on objects talking about spicy food. So when you eat food, you look a certain way and that's not true.
00:12:11:08 - 00:12:37:23
Unknown
That's not what I'm saying. Looks and healthy at the same time. Um, so that's the thing. Everybody obsesses about food, but then they put this image of what that obsession should the end goal should be. And that is the worst thing. That's that the health and fitness industry has put together health and an image that's that's not where I'm going with this.
00:12:37:23 - 00:13:13:21
Unknown
This is more just about telling you about the food that you put into your mouth because you walk in the supermarket. Supermarket is designed for you to buy food. But and there's certain foods. I'm just going to use Woolworths, for example, because we're there most of the time. There are certain foods that you pay to go in certain areas in the supermarket because I know those areas are where you buy more of those foods and it's never healthy food, it's always bad food like the checkout and Kit Kat and whatever other chocolate bars are right there by the checkout when it's the end of the day and you've got to do your grocery shopping and
00:13:13:21 - 00:13:36:01
Unknown
you're starving and you love a Kit Kat. On my way home in the car as well. They put it there. Yeah. And then like the Kit Kat. But it's a perfect mixture of carbs and fat. So as humans, carbs and fat together, the perfect ratio is addictive. It's like, I don't care what you say, it is addictive. So if you have carbs on their own, like a donut is a good one.
00:13:36:01 - 00:13:53:11
Unknown
I like to use because I love donuts and it's the most one, most common for me. So everybody thinks donuts. Oh, that's just the carbs. And that makes you fat. But it's not. There's a lot of fat in there as well. And it's just that perfect mixture that makes it so addictive. So you have one and then you like, Oh, I want another one.
00:13:53:14 - 00:14:17:10
Unknown
Yeah. So they are designed that way. So these companies put billions of dollars into making the perfect mix of carbs and fats. So your body just goes, Yes, that is what I want. Give me more. And you can't compete with it like it will. It's very hard to compete with it. We've spoken about willpower before and how you've got to work on willpower.
00:14:17:12 - 00:14:41:18
Unknown
And this is going into that same topic like it's and I'm not saying don't eat, you don't have a donut if that's what you want, but also be mindful of what is happening. Obsess over what is happening. Okay, I bought it because it was in this part of the supermarket. I had one bought and it was delicious because it's got the perfect mix of all these different things that I just absolutely crave.
00:14:41:20 - 00:15:00:11
Unknown
And it could be something different for you listening along at home. Like it could be chips, it could be whatever it is. Pringles or insert your favorite food. Yeah, but that fiber food is designed to get you to come back any more and more and more and more. So what I'm saying is it's almost good to obsess about these things.
00:15:00:14 - 00:15:28:19
Unknown
Yes, it's not good to obsess to the point where you're going to be very unhealthy and causing all sorts of body dysmorphia, more fear. And again, that's where you shouldn't associate being obsessed with good, healthy food with an image that you should obsessed with living a long, healthy, happy life, feeling better, feeling better, having energy, waking up in the morning ready to just rock and roll, smashing diet, being happy, all that sort of stuff.
00:15:28:19 - 00:15:47:24
Unknown
Food comes into that and obsess about that part of it. Forget what it looks like, what the what you look like in the end, just obsessed with how you are, how you feel, how you perform in life, how happy you are around people. So that's what I want people to obsess about, not the image. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:15:47:24 - 00:16:25:05
Unknown
Definitely. Anything else to add on to that? We did do a podcast, a long time ago now, but it was a good one. And I think you said something along the lines of like if you focus on feeling good or performing, then physical results will follow. So like you can just it is because it is very hard and very disheartening and it's a lot less motivating to focus on how your body is changing when you're restricting yourself and when you're training because it's slow, but you can do a training session and immediately feel better internally and mentally, right?
00:16:25:06 - 00:16:54:16
Unknown
You can eat a really healthy meal and immediately feel better internally. So it's just if you focus on those little things. Yeah. Which are a lot more satisfying to obsess over then. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And sometimes like you can focus on the numbers in the gym as performance or take it to a diary checking. So every week we get our clients to check in and give us feedback on how they feel and how hungry are mood, all that sort of stuff.
00:16:54:16 - 00:17:16:01
Unknown
And a lot of them are like, Why am I doing this? But over time I can come back to you and say, Well, look, your mood was a three back then and five weeks later now consistently it's a seven. Yeah. And it's those things that people just it's you don't know what your mood was five weeks ago unless you take note of it.
00:17:16:03 - 00:17:37:03
Unknown
So it's all those sort of things that matter more and you should be obsessing about those more rather than the end goal and how you look. Focus on your health and the results before it. That was it. That was the target of the podcast. Yeah. So how you set focus on your health? Yeah, but it's we used to say that a lot and we should start saying it a lot more again.
00:17:37:03 - 00:18:00:14
Unknown
But if you do focus on your health results, we'll just follow. I see that all the time and that's what we do for our clients. We get them to be healthier and exercise and focusing on what they put into their body goes into that. So yeah. All right. So we're finished with that topic there with Focus on your Health and results of our good one.
00:18:00:16 - 00:18:27:05
Unknown
All right. What do you got? Mine. This week? I wanted to talk about something. I've been hesitant. I've been hesitant to talk about on the podcast because I'm like, is it useful information? But I think it is. So if you have been listening for a while, you will know that I have been in and out of injury phases with my hip and that has stopped me from squatting.
00:18:27:07 - 00:18:45:17
Unknown
And every time I talk about it on the podcast or post about it on social media and that I can't squat because I'm injured, lots of people actually message me and say I can't as well or I've experienced the same thing. Or How did you fix it? Have you fixed it? Help me. And I don't know because I haven't been able to fix it for the past three years.
00:18:45:17 - 00:19:08:05
Unknown
Right. And Jack hasn't been able to help me fix it for the past three years. So I finally went to an osteo path is what they call osteopath rather than a physio. I don't really know. I can't advocate for one or the other, but my experience with the osteo has been incredible right there. Just it's like nothing I've ever experienced before.
00:19:08:05 - 00:19:35:12
Unknown
And I was a little worried about going because I haven't been for I haven't really been looking after it, I suppose I've just been not squatting. That's been my solution to the problem because everything that I've tried stretching, mobility, foam rolling, nothing has helped my hip flexor situation. So I just haven't been squatting and then jacks like have that you just go see someone that's like, okay, I'll go see someone.
00:19:35:14 - 00:20:03:15
Unknown
And it was much more expensive than I was anticipating. So the where we are, where we were in the country, like what, what, what would be the average price like alone hundred and 20 bucks at the most for an appointment like this. This cost me $260 and it hurt me at the time because we are pretty conservative with our money, Like we don't really spend money unnecessarily.
00:20:03:21 - 00:20:27:01
Unknown
And that is what I want to talk about, like spending money on your health. Because the same week that I went to the osteo and I spent $260 for the initial consult and then they booked me in for two more consults the week after one osteo and one rehab one, and they were individually 140 each. So then that's like another $300.
00:20:27:01 - 00:20:48:10
Unknown
And then they wanted me pretty much to spend between 150 and $300 a week afterwards to rehabilitate it. And when after the first consult when that happened, I was like, Oh my God, I can't do this. It's too expensive. Like I am going to be able to fix it. Like, what the heck, This is ridiculous. But then I went back to the second like, it was a great consult.
00:20:48:10 - 00:21:07:03
Unknown
I was I walked away feeling very happy, but also conflicted because I didn't want to spend the money on myself. Like in that way. And then I went to the second one and it was great. And they're very knowledgeable and they're very like, they really want to help you not be in pain, which is ideal because no one wants to live in pain, right?
00:21:07:05 - 00:21:30:02
Unknown
And I really want to be out of squat. And then the same week that I went to the first consult, I also bought a new laptop. This exhibit, if you're watching on YouTube, Exhibit B is Jack now has my old one, but it wasn't completely 110% necessary for me to buy a laptop, so I was extremely conflicted. Right?
00:21:30:04 - 00:21:50:05
Unknown
For a week I was like, Do Jack do. I don't. I do. I don't. I do, I don't. I get it. But I guess I needed it because you need stuff and it is convenient, right? I have a second one. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that I bought a laptop and it was exciting and it was cool and it was shiny and I love it.
00:21:50:05 - 00:22:10:15
Unknown
I still love it. I probably never stopped loving it for the next ten years because that's how long this one lasted. But that wore off very quickly, two days. And I was like, Cool, I've got a new laptop. It's fast, right? And it cost me a lot of money. But the the osteo recession overall is probably going to cost me more than my laptop.
00:22:10:17 - 00:22:34:09
Unknown
But this it's just a much longer lasting satisfaction of spending the money. It feels like it was hard at the start, but I feel okay spending the money on my health because I know that I'm not going to have to have surgery when I'm older. Hopefully if I fix the problem now and also, like the longer I leave it, the worse it gets, right?
00:22:34:12 - 00:23:02:21
Unknown
So I just wanted to, I guess, shine a light on how buying material things versus how spending money on yourself for health reasons or experiences is very different. And I feel like a lot of us lean towards material things to fix out problems. So an example would be I'm sad I'm going to buy myself some clothes. I have.
00:23:02:21 - 00:23:28:15
Unknown
I have really tight quads. I'm going to buy myself a massage gun. I what's another example? What's a food example? I want to lose weight. So I'm going to spend heaps of money on superfoods, you know, like, like just products. And they only lost that that satisfaction that you get and the results that they bring don't really match.
00:23:28:15 - 00:23:51:04
Unknown
You know what I mean? The satisfaction is short lived and the results are probably minimal. Whereas if you actually spend your money on something that is a process or an experience, science actually shows that it does make you happier in the long run because you have the memories. But then for a service like going to the offshore or going to a personal trainer, it's just completely different.
00:23:51:04 - 00:24:14:19
Unknown
The feeling that you get is completely different. Sure, it costs a lot and sure you can't actually physically hold I can't hold my results. So I get from the osteo right and show people like look at what they did, how to squat and eventually I will be how to, how to squat. But it's just I think it's much more worthwhile to to invest in your body than it is to invest in material things.
00:24:14:21 - 00:24:45:05
Unknown
And I feel like right now, especially being in a city that's very overlooked, to invest that way, I was so where we live up on level 59, where we are now, half is a coworking space, another half is a wow lounge, like a shade lounge. I remember being up one day and these two girls were talking and one girl had said that she just prepaid like a couple thousand pounds for Pete Sessions.
00:24:45:07 - 00:25:05:09
Unknown
And her friend was like, Oh my God, I can't believe you spend. And like and it was just a whole conversation on I can't believe you spend that much on personal training, basically your health. And I was just thinking like, these girls are still like, you know, they probably had well over that in clothing. Now they're wearing all that sort of stuff.
00:25:05:09 - 00:25:31:15
Unknown
So it is. But then like also the girl that's saying it's not worth it, all that sort of stuff may have tried it and not worked for her or she's had a bad personal trainer. So although like that, no, no offense to anybody, those professional services in Ulladulla, but I don't think you would have got the same experience in Ulladulla that you got with these guys.
00:25:31:17 - 00:25:52:14
Unknown
Definitely not. So I didn't because I've only been to physios also and because I've been to multiple physios over the past three years, and no one has been able to help me even in the slightest. I feel like I also lost faith in spending money. Yes, and that's what I mean. Like a lot of people listening will go, Yeah, but like, is it actually worth it?
00:25:52:14 - 00:26:14:16
Unknown
Because, you know, I tried and didn't work. And that's a thing, unfortunately, like let's just use physios or osteopath or anything that it's not a blank. Like everybody comes out to you and you have the same degree, but not everybody the same. Yeah, and it's unfortunate. It's so Peter, it's like any, any profession really. And you can't know everything.
00:26:14:16 - 00:26:34:06
Unknown
Like, obviously everyone's going to have more experience in certain areas of the body and certain injuries, and you can't expect every therapist, personal trainer, physio, massage therapist to know everything. That's why, that's, that's why I want to try. I said to you, just go get it fixed, because it got to the point where I didn't know any more.
00:26:34:08 - 00:27:01:19
Unknown
But yeah, I've tried everything. I know Jacqui Jacqui's even asking all the trainers at the gym and they were suggesting things and we were trying that and that wasn't working. So it's like you just have to ask more and more people and expand your network of professionals and hopefully someone will have seen it before and know. But you can't just write it off and live with it without trying that this year.
00:27:01:21 - 00:27:21:01
Unknown
Yeah, and unfortunately it might cost you Fitbit that way to find that perfect person. It's just like of use this analogy before, like if you tap starts leaking and you get you get a plumber to come in and fix it and a day later it starts leaking again. Well, plumbing is not for me. You just leave it at leaking.
00:27:21:01 - 00:27:37:13
Unknown
It's not like you're going to get it fixed. It's the same if you body if you have a little niggle, that's turning into a little bit more. A little bit more, A little bit more. Like, yeah, you know, you might get into physio and physio is not for me. I'll just deal with it in a couple years time.
00:27:37:13 - 00:27:53:08
Unknown
In ten years, 20 years, however long that little leak in your body is going to be a big issue that you might have to get operated on and once you go down that route, then a lot of other issues can pop up as well. Yeah, but yeah, good point.
00:27:53:08 - 00:28:18:00
Unknown
Shall we move on to our $0.03. Let's do it. Okay. I'm going to start with something for you guys to try as necessarily health and fitness but mental health orientated maybe. And that is I want you all to go into your phone in your settings and go into screen time and see how much time you spend on your phone.
00:28:18:00 - 00:28:39:07
Unknown
It'll break it down into the apps that you spend most of your time on and you can do this. What I'm going to suggest in two ways you can either take the amount of time that you've been spending just on social media and tally that up. So it might be 3 hours a day. And then I want you to try and replace that time with reading.
00:28:39:09 - 00:29:01:21
Unknown
Okay. So going today is what day is this? Monday. Monday. So go back to last Monday. See how long you spent on social media. And then this Monday, try and read. If it was 3 hours that you spent on social media last Monday, try and read for 3 hours today and then let me know how hard it is, because it is unbelievably hard.
00:29:01:23 - 00:29:27:15
Unknown
Social media is, like you said, designed to keep us there. Right. So it's very easy for you to just be scrolling and scrolling. And 45 minutes has gone by, but it is very hard for you to sit and read for 45 minutes. It's even just sit and look at the wall for 5 minutes and you realize how much time you are actually wasting on social media.
00:29:27:17 - 00:29:54:17
Unknown
Like screen time might be a little different. Screen time in general because you might use your phone for like we use it for recording reels and stuff like that. So just start with the social media. Even if you want to start with one app, just replace the amount of time you spent on Instagram with reading and just let me know because I've been doing that the past week, not necessarily only reading but also listening to a podcast and doing something else rather than sitting like cooking, for example.
00:29:54:19 - 00:30:18:12
Unknown
Good. The amount of stuff that I've learned maybe out of epiphanies and like mindset shifts and people and vocab, it just it's just great. I just cannot recommend it highly enough because you just scroll on social media and sure, you learn little things like I want a bit on Tik Tok. Useless stuff though, and I just I leave.
00:30:18:12 - 00:30:43:20
Unknown
When I leave the platform, I feel anxious, I feel worthless, I feel not good enough. Like I compare myself to everybody. I compare my content to other people. Whereas if you just take yourself away from it for a little while and just learn something deeper, right? I mean, you don't have to write a book that is educational. It can be entertainment, I guess, but that's just what I prefer, educational books.
00:30:43:22 - 00:31:09:02
Unknown
So it's something to try. I'm going to change what I'm on and continue onto that path and say, if you haven't already, turn your notifications off. I think this is very overlooked and very powerful. So basically as soon as you get a notification and you open up an app like where the social media or not that has power over your time, so that is now got your attention.
00:31:09:02 - 00:31:38:23
Unknown
So that's get rid of that. So I only have notifications for phone calls and text messages. Every other app. I haven't got my coaching app as well where my contacts contact me. So only three apps give me notifications every other app. So I'm talking messenger, Facebook, Instagram emails, all that sort of stuff. Only when I go into it I can see what's happened and a lot of people freaking out when they hear that.
00:31:38:23 - 00:32:09:00
Unknown
But it is very powerful, especially when you turn off social media because those notifications are exactly designed to get you to open that up, back up. So it's not like it's some random thing. They have spent millions, probably billions of dollars just on that notification to get it more appealing for you to open up the app again. So take the power back from those companies, put it in your brain, give yourself the power back and get rid of notifications on your phone, is what I'd say.
00:32:09:01 - 00:32:30:24
Unknown
Honestly. I forget that people have notifications only because I've had no notifications for so long. My family even gets annoyed with me because I constantly have my phone on Do not Disturb and if they call me I will not answer until I open my phone see notifications. Then I will call them back. But it's just. Yeah, your attention, your time is the most valuable thing you have.
00:32:30:24 - 00:32:55:13
Unknown
Yeah, like I don't like all those material things we're talking about before all that sort of stuff. Your time and your attention is the most valuable thing. And these platforms want that time and attention because it makes them money. Yeah, so don't let them have it. You take it back, turn your notifications off. Something to should we do listen to and watch together.
00:32:55:14 - 00:33:23:16
Unknown
Yeah. Because you could do either. Yeah. So we also go while minimizing social media time. The past week we've also been not watching Netflix or any streaming service. So instead we've been watching YouTube, generally interviews and we watched it together. We watched a really great interview with Tim Ferriss and Andrew Haberman, like Tim Ferriss is probably Jack's favorite podcaster.
00:33:23:18 - 00:33:52:02
Unknown
Entertainment is probably mine. So it was like dreams coming true left, right and center so you could listen to it or you could watch it on YouTube, right? But it was just a really great, genuine conversation about about lots of topics life science, health and fitness relationships. It's a long one. So it's like 3 hours. I think we watched over like a four day period maybe, but I will link the specific episode in the show notes.
00:33:52:02 - 00:34:13:02
Unknown
I'm pretty sure it was. Tim Ferriss was on Andrew Humans Podcasting, so that Andrew Cuban was interviewing. Tim Ferriss Yeah. So it's a pretty recent one. But also Tim Ferriss has interviewed Andrew Human, and that's also a great episode. I was going to say that as well. Yeah, do both. And that's what I saw ends up being five or 6 hours worth of listening and watching you learn stuff.
00:34:13:02 - 00:34:39:08
Unknown
I just, I think that with social media we sort of undervalue learning the deeper part about people's lives. Like we learn a lot of surface stuff, like about where people are, what people are eating, what people are wearing, the highlights, the highlights. But we don't actually see or learn a lot about their mindset and thought processes and daily rituals and everything, which is actually what makes the highlights look so good, right?
00:34:39:12 - 00:34:58:12
Unknown
Yeah. And Tim Ferriss just has a good way of breaking things down, like I achieved this, but these are the steps I took to do it and literally just follow those steps to achieve that. And a lot of people don't do that. But he just he likes breaking things down into steps to do it. If you've read any of his books or.
00:34:58:14 - 00:35:20:19
Unknown
Yeah, right. Got going into any of these content it's all like that. And you know, a lot of people don't do it because it takes a little bit of work. But if you do the work you do get those results and you follow those steps. Cool. MASTERS Yeah, that's it. That's all for this week. So replace. Yeah, try replacing social media time with reading or part.
00:35:20:22 - 00:35:46:15
Unknown
I'll accept podcasting as well. Try having no notifications on your social media apps and emails and listen or watch to Andrew Huberman interviewing Tim Ferriss or vice versa. Dan Co was a good one. All right, Thanks everybody for tuning in. Obviously, you've lost this long, so you've enjoyed it. Please. It helps us out a lot, helps this podcast grow, helps us continue doing this.
00:35:46:15 - 00:36:04:20
Unknown
If you copy the link for the show and send it to one other person, just one person can be a friend, family member, even somebody you don't like just hassle them you don't like. If you don't like somebody just every single week, just send them this link. Maybe they'll start listening and then maybe you like them because they'll change their life to suit your lifestyle.
00:36:04:22 - 00:36:12:15
Unknown
Exactly. Good points. Or it will talk to you all in the next episode by.
00:36:14:05 - 00:36:37:00
Unknown
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