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Digital addiction to highly entertaining content often rewires the brain threshold for pleasure. In this video, Pulkit Sharma, clinical psychologist and author, elucidates how our digital addictions are making us tolerant to real life pleasures. No wonder, an increasing number of people are finding almost everything uninteresting and boring.

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00:00What happens when you watch a lot of funny, weird, intensely dramatic and
00:09sexually explicit content? Well, you are excited, thrilled, hooked and watch more
00:19and more. You keep doing this day in and day out. However, over the long run your
00:28brain gets habituated to this intense dose of pleasure and starts finding
00:36normal life very dull, very boring and very uninteresting. You experience this
00:45because your brain has developed a voracious appetite for hyperstimulation.
00:51The kind of stimulation which real life can sadly never give you. As a result,
01:00you start hating your normal life. Withdraw from it and your smartphone becomes your
01:07drug, your comfort and your only pleasure giver. That's why you must learn to strike
01:16a very fine balance between your real life and your real life. And never allow
01:24real pleasures to hijack the real pleasures.
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