Category: Changing habits

There’s some truth to the sense that social media can feel like work. Back in the 1970s, the communication researcher Dallas Smythe said that television doesn’t sell entertainment to the audience — it sells the audience to advertisers. Just by watching television — and posting, liking, tweeting, etc. — we “work.” As in, we do what counts as work in a …

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Bring to mind a habit that you’d like to change. One that you often do unconsciously, without choice. It could be drinking, overeating, checking Facebook, or how you treat someone you love. Really visualize yourself doing it. Imagine the sights, smells, tastes, and sounds. How do you feel, right now, about this image of yourself …

Read more “Beating yourself up inside isn’t helping”