Did You Know That You Are Poisoning Your Mindset? | Ep. 489

Stop Doom Scrolling: Protect Your Attention and Your Mindset Frazier explains why doom scrolling is destructive by describing the attention-based business model of news and social platforms, which profit by keeping users engaged and selling their attention to advertisers. He says these platforms exploit human negativity bias—the brain’s tendency to prioritize negative information for survival—using algorithms, headlines, and outrage content to keep people scrolling. Frazier argues that consu...