I recently came to terms with how social media has drastically increased my screen time and bad vision habits. After doom-scrolling on tiktok for several hours, a few months ago, I decided that it’s finally time to take action. Doing so was challenging for a couple of reasons: firstly, social media is the perfect distraction for me — it fills the silence during my commutes and gives me an instant dopamine rush whenever I feel bored. Secondly, a lot of my work deals with social media, which means there are limits to how much I can reduce. With these challenges in mind, in today’s episode, I dive into my relationship with social media (mostly tiktok) and how I’ve been trying to reduce my screen time.

References:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/gen-z-tiktok-instagram-new-search-engine-google-digital-native-education-3557846

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/technology/gen-z-tiktok-search-engine.html

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Maintaining friendships after uni and college can be difficult as people move to different cities, start new jobs and have new priorities. In this week's episode, I talk about the joys of living on campus with my friends and how these friendships have evolved after graduation. I also discuss how I've approached maintaining long-distance friendships and how my close friends and I stay connected.

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Reading is a great habit to have and I'm trying to finish 20 books this year. In today's episode, I talk about three books that I've been loving.

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Decluttering is something that I've always struggled with. I also love buying clothes and holding onto them because I'm sentimental.

In today's episode, I discuss the benefits of decluttering, how I approach decluttering with a gamified process and my ongoing journey towards becoming a more conscious consumer.

References

Roster, C. A., Ferrari, J. R., & Peter Jurkat, M. (2016). The Dark Side of Home: Assessing possession ‘clutter’ on subjective well-being. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 46, 32–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.03.003

Welcome to The Chatterbox Pod! In this short episode, I introduce the podcast, share topics I hope to cover in the future and ramble on about being chatty.