8:56Billionaire Gives Up Phone and Computer for One Month
From My First Million · Published Jul 5, 2022 · Watch on YouTube
TL;DR
Andrew, a successful entrepreneur from Tiny, experienced anhedonia and digital overload during COVID despite objective success. He took a four-week "dopamine fast" with no phone, email, computer, podcasts, phone calls, social media, news, or nonfiction business books. After three to four days of withdrawal, he felt significantly better, regained pleasure, and solved problems eagerly.
Key insights
- Andrew's misery coincided with his life shifting from working in cafes (broken into short chunks, social) to being on a computer all day on Zoom and email, despite taking a company public and raising
- His Twitter usage escalated from 20k to 170k followers; his mood became tied to tweet performance (e.g., upset if a tweet got only 50 likes instead of 5k).
- He experienced anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure), described as "scrolling endlessly for the perfect thing" on Netflix applied to life.
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