Screen Activities vs Non-Screen Activities

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest?

No exceptions — all screen activities linked to less happiness, all non-screen activities linked to more happiness.

It's the news' job to make you anxious and angry. But its underlying scientific, economic, education, and conflict trends are positive. Stay optimistic. Politics, academia, and social status are all zero-sum games. Positive-sum games create positive people.

Increase serotonin in the brain without drugs: Sunlight, exercise, positive thinking, and tryptophan.

CHANGING HABITS: Pick one thing. Cultivate a desire. Visualize it. Plan a sustainable path. Identify needs, triggers, and substitutes. Tell your friends. Track meticulously. Self-discipline is a bridge to a new self-image. Bake in the new self-image. It's who you are — now.

First, you know it. Then, you understand it. Then, you can explain it. Then, you can feel it. Finally, you are it.