Jocko Podcast - Standard Directive 010: Stop Scrolling

Episode Date: October 13, 2023

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Your phone is so distracting, isn't it? Your phone distracts you all day long. It's just a huge distraction. You know what? We don't want to blame your phone. I guess it's the apps in your phone. These apps are so distracting. The games and the news feeds and the social media.

All of them. I know some people that waste hours, hours playing little games. on their phone games that are built and designed to release dopamine and keep you playing and the games and the engineers that's their focus same thing with the news feed right what are the news what are the news feed doing constantly updating information on the big story new big story that you need to stay up to date on it's the big thing that's happening you don't want to miss it The news.

So distracting. Doesn't even seem like they should be allowed to run so many stories because it's distracting you. And those game engineers shouldn't be able to design those games because they're distracting you. Maybe they should be illegal. And of course, there's social media, there's Twitter, there's the gram, there's the Facebookie and Snapchat and TikTok. All 100% designed to lure you in. and then keep you trapped in their little algorithm. So those are some forces of distraction

that we have to contend with. Powerful forces, by the way, designed by brilliant people that are making millions, billions of dollars to keep you distracted. That's their sole goal, is keeping you focused on that screen and not on your life. Can you believe that they do that to you? You believe it?

Well, guess what? It's not the fault of the games or the news or the social media platforms and the algorithms. It's not their fault. There's only one person to blame and that's you. They cannot make you look at their junk, at their feed, but you do it voluntarily. You click and scroll and look and get it. and look and get that little dopamine hit that they dole out to you over and over again

and you snorted up like an addict. And we're trying to blame them. Are they to blame for that? Are they? Are they to blame for our actions? I actually say no. We are to blame. I am to blame.

We give them control when we click and scroll. We give up our time. and our thoughts and our freedom. But we don't have to do that. We do not have to accept this. We don't have to bow down to these dopamine dealers, these thought thieves, these mind murderers. We don't have to accept it.

Get control. Free your mind, stop scrolling, stop clicking, and start living.