Investigating the Irresistible: A Conversation with Adam Alter - Behavioral Scientist - 0 views
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lapple on 22 Oct 18"It happened almost every night around 10 p.m. I'd plan to spend 30 seconds setting my iPhone alarm and then get into bed to read (a paper book). But after I set the alarm, some other part of my consciousness would guide my fingers towards other apps as if I was navigating a Ouija board. I'd check Instagram. And Twitter. One last sweep of my email accounts and any other app that could possibly be checked (is looking at Venmo really necessary?), and then I'd navigate to Facebook and Twitter on my Safari browser (I took the apps off my phone so I'd spend less time on them-#fail). An hour later, I'd emerge from my possessed state a bleary-eyed zombie. What had I been doing for the last hour? Where was my self control?"