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This one habit can change your days dramatically

2025-12-27 · Short · TJ Power · recording, 1:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Health, sleep and habits · mode: Conversation and interview

Asked for action points to improve how we use dopamine, neuroscientist TJ Power recommends phone fasting: at least 15 minutes on waking, spent taking action, and at least 60 minutes away from the phone in the evening.

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00:00:00 — TJ Power on phone fasting in the morning and the evening

  • ★★ TJ Power calls phone fasting the most effective thing in his research and training: at least 15 minutes off the phone on waking, taking action at once by brushing your teeth, splashing cold water on your face and making your bed. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ TJ Power: In the evening TJ Power wants at least 60 minutes physically away from the phone, spent for example cooking and eating, exercising or socialising, to give life a clear structure away from the phone's quick dopamine. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ TJ Power says the phone is the main thing in our lives hijacking the dopamine system, and getting away from it more gives you far more motivation. — 00:00:29

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Central: dopamine · phone fasting · TJ Power

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