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Protect Your Thoughts From Phone Checks
When a train of thought starts to get hard, delay checking your phone, email, or the internet and keep working through the idea. The protocol is to tolerate the moment of friction instead of switching tasks, which helps you finish sustained thinking and preserve creativity.
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“And it's very easy to check your phone or check your email or look something up on the internet. And then you never get that opportunity to finish that thought, which is really the source of creative energy and an original thought, right?”
huberman · Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke · Jun 26, 2025 · 30:58 · open ↗
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