To debunk the ‘Myth of the sugar-high’ is to actively reshape a fundamental scapegoat, Sugar: causes my kid to be hyper. Which is actually proven to be junk science.
Similarly, in comparison to the most digitally addicting devices, blaming them and wiping our hands clean is just a shallow surface answer to a much deeper question. The easy route means we can blame it on distraction, turning away from the dark and complex underlying truth of what exactly causes it. The heavy lifting involves dissecting our distractions and specifically identifying the triggers that bring us deeper into them.
Surrendering to digital addiction, without sufficient amounts of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, make distractions that much more readily available to fill that void for psychological nourishment.
My notes and Paraphrases from Nir Eyal’s – Indistractable