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Stop doomscrolling stop doomscrolling! Yes agree. But then what? Yes, quitting social media feels good and productive. You start to regain your attention. Old activities become fun. You can focus. But then you're left with all this extra time. A gaping hole. And if you don't fill it intentionally then whats the point? You must create. Satiate the itch. Let it out. Erupt. You cant eat forever, why should your brain be any different? Start creating. Use social media for good. With great power comes great responsibility. I just took a little social media hiatus and felt like my brain was going to explode. I can say with certainty that my mind started to feel like stale bread. Like it was put in a cast to atrophy. I needed to get it out. Its so paradoxical. Perhaps its not quitting social media that we need, but more of a shift from consumption to creation. How weird. The thing we need to quit is also the tool that can free us. An outlet for the ambitious, creative mind. It feels so good to channel all that pent up energy into something meaningful. Something helpful. Something you. Yes I wasn't doomscrolling, and yes It felt great to sink into the activities I enjoy, but what I missed the most wasn't the escape that social media provides, but the ability to turn my ideas into something real. Not for attention, or money, or what it might become, but because I believe creation is a core human need. And it wasn't until I stopped that I realized how much I enjoyed it, much like most things.

The best traders are the most bored ones.