The Power of One Hour: Transforming Your Life with 3 Meaningful Choices

It’s becoming easier to live an unfulfilling life.

The amount of external short-term dopamine-producing escapes from reality is increasing, and the existing platforms are becoming more effective in sucking us in.

The algorithms are designed to keep us connected to whatever we’re doing for as long as possible — showing us more of what we’re drawn to and confirming our existing beliefs through confirmation bias.

Things like social media, porn, 24 news cycles, video games, binging shows, food and alcohol delivery to our doorstep, and the world of information available on our phones.

Couple this ease with being dissatisfied with work (a recent study by the Conference Board states only 51% of US employees report feeling satisfied), and it’s a recipe for an empty life.

Because, after a long day on the job, it’s easy to seek the easiest means to fill the emptiness that doing unfulfilling work creates.

So we reach for convenience and choose our poison.

Poison isn’t an over-exaggeration; chasing short-term dopamine hits degrades our quality of life and cultivates the seeds of regret.