🥰 Real talk: how much time do you spend on short-form scrolling a day?

A) Under 1 hour — I'm in control

B) 1–3 hours — it's a habit

C) 3+ hours — I need this video

D) I'm scared to check my screen time 😱

Yo, I love your voice. It’s soothing

I enjoyed this video. I forwarded it to a few people.❤

Thanks for sharing the content of a science book written in Korean.  Loved your conclusion.  It reminded me of the necessity of being present in our lived moments.

I love all of your videos.  This one was especially helpful.  God bless you!

It's so obvious in a way but if you think about it, the fact that software changes hardware is amazing. and I totally agree that we live in the world where we encourage our kids to watch movies.

Thank you Liz for this great video.

I used to think i did pretty good in controlling my screen time but this video really made my rethink that. I draw quite a lot and i noticed that i only draw while watching random stuff on youtube. I think taking some of your advice and just drawing in silence will probably be better on my brain than overloading it with short videos online, or at the very least exchange it for a good movie.
speaking of movies I recently got your movie review template for the 5 part journal and i love it. Thank you for all the amazing and thought provoking videos you make!

Thank you for sharing a lot of important information! I really like the examples that you use

Good video and it’s very important to talk about the bad aspects of short videos and how this kind of videos destroys our brain

Thank you. Really impactful, and I like that you showed us the problem and mentioned solutions. It makes me more aware of how lacking in depth even text messages can be now, even though we don't have character and message limits these days. I'm going to try to send more in depth messages - less "good. You?" type messages. And not just journal summaries of the day with telegram length reactions. Thank you. ❤

Great video!  Thank you so much! ...beautiful calligraphy btw!  It was a hobby of mine when I was much younger.   xoxo

This makes sense because, likewise, when people struggle with blocked arteries, thru exercise, there are also detours that are built (new blood vessels, capillaries) like your example of a boat with more than one rope.

I'm new to your channel. And I wanna say I'm loving your content a lot.. you are so confident and very elegant. I love your style, very neat and clean and most importantly I appreciate your research you do before a video. Your family is so lucky to have you in their life. ❤❤❤

Interesting!

Hello Liz! I have been a subscriber for quite a while now and have always looked forward to your videos - while not as frequent as other YouTubers (I wished you would post more frequently!), I can feel that you really do put in a lot of deep thought and effort when crafting each video, and I found this episode's content really timely and helpful as I've been thinking about reducing my doom-scrolling habits as well.

I saw a comment below mentioning about the use of AI-generated graphics, so I thought I'd like to chip in a bit. I believe most of us do understand your intention of making the video as engaging & aesthetically pleasing as possible, and see the use of AI as just a tool to achieve that goal, just like an architect would use a ruler to draw straight edges (instead of relying on free-hand drawing). To be sure, I am not against AI - in fact, I am a software developer who uses AI heavily to make a living, and have to read thousands of lines of AI-generated text daily in order to perform my job.

So sometimes we yearn to get back in touch with our human side, where we can relax, slow down, and enjoy the process of slow craftmanship, instead of always striving for speed and perfection. That is why we enjoy calligraphy when we already have perfect fontfaces on our computers; that is why handwritten letters feel a lot more precious than an instant text. Using AI makes the process feel "cheap" since there's little effort involved (I know you probably spent lots of time "prompting" the AI to generate the perfect image, but others may not see that). And in this day and age, our perception of what is "worthy" has changed from "did it look good?" to "how much human effort was put into creating this?". Before AI, if something looked good, we can infer that someone put a lot of effort into creating that; after AI, if something looked "too perfect", we dismissed that as "AI-generated slop". But one thing has not changed - the audience is always looking for the human effort and creativity that went into creating something worthy of appreciation.

Another issue with using AI-generated images: As someone who had to deal with AI hallucination daily, when I see an AI-generated image, I tend to look out for signs of AI hallucination like "oh that bible verse on the wall.. is that correct?", "the nuns' faces all looked the same", etc, which totally distracts me from the main message that you're trying to bring across.

Nevertheless I would like to reiterate that I really enjoyed all your content so far and I appreciate all your life tips and guidance, so please don't take this as a criticism but more of an avenue for discussion. Since you're a graphic designer, one possible direction is to use your graphic design / drawing skills to create the illustrations that you need - I'm pretty sure the audience will appreciate the human effort a lot more. And maybe this discussion regarding AI can be a new idea for your future video ;)

All the best!

hi. I spend about an hour and a half daily on social media, usually playing something from youtube while I do chores. I don't think the problem is with the fact that it's short, the problem is that is short and erratic? Your videos are short compared to a movie, but that is not a problem. You are part of a story I follow. When scrolling aimesly , totaly random content, not following a particular subject on your scroll, or persons, can get confusing.  That also can be relaxing for a short while. Moderation is the key. I used to take street-photography that meant 10 minutes of talk and a few photos to random strangers I chose to talk to, but I was following an idea , street fashion. Long form is composed of a chain of short form from my viewpoint. Not being able to follow though on a longer form is a struggle, but it's also a freedom. Anyway, all the best! Have a nice day! Maria

This is amazing video and very interesting study! I am spending 1-2h daily on scrolling and realized it is so hard for me to start reading a book. My husband is even worse. He cannot keep his phone aside longer than 10 min😮‍💨

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…. I would like to ask which is the name of the book you’ve said in this video ?

This was a really super video! Thank you for making it. Do you know if the book you mentioned is available in English and  can you share the spelling of the neuroscientist’s name please.