“What you must do is disconnect—take stock. Attempt to prevent the activation of any dopamine and do deep thinking. Then when you go back to those things, they don’t seem dead inside but instead kind of cool. That’s the idea, anyway,” writes harring46
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What you must do is disconnect — take stock. Not look at your phone, not drink celery juice in your co-working kitchen, not hike, not touch, and not walk on busy streets. Attempt to prevent the activation of any dopamine at all and do deep thinking instead. Then when you go back to those things, they don’t seem dead inside but instead kind of cool. That’s the idea, anyway. All these 25-year-old guys on Reddit are swearing by it. The New York Times wrote an article about it. Then Vox.
Because I must admit, there are many reasons I am not the target audience for this fast — possibly because I am already avoiding Silicon Valley–style dopamine-triggers without even trying. I don’t have an Instagram because in photos, I look like a ghost who is haunting people . No one is “pinging” me all the time because I am a freelance writer — if anything I am pinging them and they are ignoring me, which is like whatever the opposite of dopamine is.
Next I head to a coffee place because I need to get the baby some food and am worried that putting oatmeal in a bowl will activate my dopamine centers. I tell everyone there I am dopamine fasting and can’t talk to them, except to order my coffee and a scone for the baby. They don’t care because this is New York City and none of them want to talk to me. There is an adorable baby at the coffee place who is super fat and activating my dopamine center. I leave right after I get my coffee.
Plus, I’m starving. Usually when I am trying out a diet I eat something whether it be a disgusting green juice or a disgusting tuna grapefruit salad or what have you. But this dopamine fast means I can’t eat anything, which is making me extremely cold.
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