Brain Hacking – Cell Phone Addiction – Learn More NOW

Brain Hacking – Cell Phone Addiction. We all know it exists. We see it everyday walking down the street on the sidewalk, down the halls of school, in the classroom, on the trains, even in cars and at the dinner table.

A recent program on 60 Minutes called “BRAIN HACKING” was fascinating and went into detail about cell phone addiction. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-hacking-tech-insiders-60-minutes/ The point that the expert insiders from Google and other tech app creators make is this: in order to get you to buy more

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product, the cell phone programmers, and the intenet platform programmers and companies, deliberately program their applications to keep you watching the screen. Keeping you wanting to get more likes, to get more “rewards” of various types. On the free platforms, like Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, etc., you don’t pay to use them. On the other hand, nothing is free really. Someone is paying the salaries, the electricity and the servers, the bonuses of everyone working there. Who? Advertisers. (And stock holders, venture capitalists, and other early investors). But largely, the internet platform and application companies make their money on advertisements. They need your eyes on their ads and your impulse buying to make a profit.

So, the longer they can keep you looking, the more ads you will see and the more revenue they make

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What caught my attention was the statement “going lower on the brain stem” as a strategy for addicting viewers. The brilliant minds in Silicon Valley use their knowledge of how the brain works to create compulsion to check your cell phone apps often. Very often.

What is this “lower on the brain stem” thing? Well, in my book “Super Brain: Maximize your Brain Health for a Better Life” http://www.SuperBrain-theBook.com we discuss the way your brain works in Chapter 2, page 27-51. The more you know about how your brain works the more you can know consciously when you are being addicted and how.

I suggest watching the 60 minute segment and reading my book. The addiction state is related to stress induction.

Stress, especially chronic stress, is bad for your body and your brain.

Preserve your brain and body. Shut off your cell phone more often!