Transcript of Your phone is stealing your attention | Mel Robbins #Shorts

Your phone is designed to steal your attention for one reason, and one reason only. People are making money on you. It's that simple. They're making money on you. We live in what's called the attention economy. It means your attention is for sale. That the time that you spend watching media, scrolling through your phone, buying things that you don't need, that everybody is making money off off of your attention and your time. The phone is designed to keep you on it. What's happened with the phone and how tech is designed and how social media is designed and how ads are designed and how headlines are written, they are specifically designed to screw you over, to have you just casually turn over your most precious thing in life, which is your time and your attention. The research shows that the average person in the United States, based on the devices themselves is spending seven hours a day consuming media on your phone. Seven hours a day. That's 59 hours a week. You got to be very careful about the addictive nature of this freaking device and how people are using you. Because when you wake up and are like, Wait a minute, I'm getting used?

I think you're going to have a different level of motivation around your boundaries with this phone..