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The Fit Puppet Day 1.
The Fit Puppet Day 1.
Today is day 1 of âTHE FIT PUPPETâ program. âTHE FIT PUPPETâ is all about living a healthy lifestyle, which means exercising in a moderate amount, eating healthier food, and enjoying life a little bit more then âIâ (which also means you) used to. This program is suitable for someone who has never exercised regularly before or someone who has missed the regular workouts for a long time and isâŠ
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Hooked: Being A Screen Addict.
An addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive stimuli despite adverse consequences. Screen addiction is a very young form of addiction which grew with the entertainment industry. It started with rise of television industry and as the internet took entertainment industry to the next level, the screen addiction became more widespread than we think. Now this doesn't means that the entertainment industry is to blame. Entertainment industry has been there since the starting of civilizations (Between 1935 and 1941, Electronic Television were sold in UK, Germany, USA, and other countries).
History Of Screen & Internet
1935 - The first Electronic TV was available to public. Before that mechanical TVs were available.
1991- The First world wide web page was created.
2004 - Facebook was made available to college students.
2005 - Youtube was launched and it brought free online video hosting and sharing to the masses.
2006 - Â Amazon Unbox was launched in US.
2007 - iPhone was introduced.
2007 - Netflix moved into streaming.
2009 - Hello WhatsApp.
2012 - Google play was launched and movies were made available online.
Internet - An Addiction
The new generation don't want to sit around a TV to watch their favorite television series. When was the last time you watched a youtube video? How many Television series have you finished since the introduction of Netflix? How long has it been since you read a newspaper? How long it has been since you went on a hike? And where are you actually reading this article? One may argue that internet in not addictive. Let me tell you about Bibliomania which can be a symptom of obsessiveâcompulsive disorder which involves the collecting or even hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged. In other words it is a symptom of addiction to books, and we all know internet is much more reinforcing and rewarding (the two properties of addictive stimuli) than books.
Gambling and checking your phone for text, instagram or twitter feed, or any other notifications have the same effect on your brain. They both lead to secretion of dopamine - the feel good hormone. The use of a screen to watch Youtube videos, Amazon Prime movies, Netflix TV series stimulates the same area of the brain of a screen addict that does a drug abuse for a drug addict. The algorithm of the recommendation system of every platform which may be video hosting, subscription based, or even social is written in such a way that the users get a greater dose of dopamine when they revisit that particular platform. This is done using the user history and other information. The better the engineers developing the algorithm are at their job the more dopamine is released in the brain of the viewer. The more we use the platform the better the recommendations get. A study conducted at McMaster University in Canada found that college-aged students who spent excessive amounts of time on the internet exhibited more depression, anxiety, impulsiveness and an inability to manage time and routines than those who did not. A recent article shows how screen addiction is affecting our travels.
Over the past decade, the concept of Internet addiction has grown in terms of acceptance as a legitimate clinical disorder often requiring treatment. Researchers are divided over whether Internet addiction is a disorder on its own or a symptom of another underlying disorder. There is also debate over whether it should be classified as an impulse-control disorder or an obsessive-compulsive disorder rather than an addiction. In a recent article, May Wilkerson suggested that internet addiction i.e. screen is not a correct term people who have OCD for internet use. He argues that people who use excessive internet to play gambling game may have gambling addiction and people who use excessive internet to shop may have shopping addiction.
Is Internet A Bad Thing?
No, Internet is a revolution and is a great thing. It has made so many reforms possible. But with powers comes great responsibility. Sorry, I meant every great thing has some bad results as well. Internet is like vacation which is great but one cannot just be on a vacation all the time. Vacation is important and healthy but only when taken in the right amount. Some people may occasionally enjoy alcohol, other people may never try alcohol and still others may be addicted to alcohol.
How Is Screen Addiction Different From Other Addictions?
Other addictions have a very basic first step to remove the stimuli from the environment and other addictions need the addict to stay away from the substances he is addicted to. This can't be the case with screen addiction. A screen addict cannot really remove screens or internet from his life. In many other ways the screen addiction is very similar to other addictions like drug abuse. Extent of the problem.Why screen addiction is so vast because screen addiction is often misinterpreted because the time on the screen can be caused due to so many stimuli. According to Scholastic Choices February 2018 edition 50% of teens feel addicted to their phone. Teens spend more than 2.5 hours a day watching television or videos and 28 minutes a day reading. During their homework 76% listen to music, 60% text, 51% watch TV, 50% use social media. The average teen's total screen time, not including homework screen time is 9 hours which is more that they sleep.  Jean Twenge in her article explains how the smartphone affected an entire generation of kids (after the millennials) and how this particular generation is completely unprepared for adulthood.
Are you a screen addict?
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Scrappy little nobody is a collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress Anna Kendrick who was born on August 9, 1985 and started her career as a child actor in theatre production. Anna describes herself as weird and crazy in the book. The book does have a timeline from her childhood to her successful career in Hollywood, but it isn't continuous. It is a collection of important and some not so important but funny moments of Anna's life. If you are a die hard fan and want to read this to know the inside story of her life then reading this book will do some part of the job for you. But instead of the inside stories this books is more about an insecure little nobody, her feelings, her classmates, her height, her flat chest, her late sex life, her crazy imaginations, her limited friends, her fashion accessories, and her mother, and about her journey from a little scrappy nobody to a successful woman who happens to be a successful Hollywood actress. This book is a generalization of every other insecure girl's life and that is what author wants to convey that she is like every other girl, with the exception that Anna is confident and satisfied with her own skin. She know who she actually is and doesn't want to change that to look nice. The book is the story of how she became comfortable with her own skin. I usually prefer audio books narrated by the authors because they convey each and every bit in the way author actually wants to convey. Anna is a great actor, so the modulation of her voice during the narration is amazing. I would suggest that you listen to the book at a low volume. You'll know what I meant when the phrase "you think you are better than me?" will shock the drivers in the cars around you and they start staring at you like you talk trash to some girl and now she is taking a revenge. The use of words like sex, boobs, fuck and other taboo words is very common. I live in India so I wouldn't want my 50ish year old neighbor to hear some girl talking about her boobs and her sex life. What I really don't want is that neighbor seeing me laughing while that girl kept narrating about her body parts. The book is not about what Anna did wrong in her life. So you don't really learn a lot from the book, unless you are in acting business, which is a trap. The sole purpose of the book, as mentioned by the author, is to be funny and funny it is. I enjoyed every bit. She is a comedian. I meant not a comedian comedian, but a comedian.She is still trying to figure it all out but aren't we all? Read more
Permission To Screw Up is a memoir by Kristen Hadeed. It is the story of how a wish to buy a $99 pair of jeans lead to one of the best cleaning companies in the world - Student Maid. It is the story of screw ups. It is story of how the author learned everything by doing everything wrong at first. Literally, everything. This book is very different from the other people books in the market because other books rarely tell the reader about the mistakes that author made during his/her journey. This book, on the contrary, is based on the mistakes made by author during her journey to create student maid. I have mentioned in my post 'The Culture of Perfection' that how everyone makes some mistake. This story breaks that culture of perfection. I'll suggest you to listen to an audio book for this one because the narration is really good and you get to know how Kristen felt at the time the incident that is mentioned actually happened. Read More
The Alchemist is one of the most famous fiction of all times. The writer Paulo Coelho did an amazing job. When the book was published it was a flop, it didn't e
Shoe Dog is a memoir of Phill Knight who is not the maker(It was a team sport) but is the owner of Nike. Nike is one of the best cultures in the world. Yes, the
The twentieth century's media and culture focus only one side of the coin that is perfection. Everything from perfect human bodies to perfect and beautiful face
Never fake it, even if you donât make it.
An average human spends an average of seven hours each day sleeping, one hour each day on the phone and social media, and a bullshit amount of time in other stu
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Life is short. Live it.
The fragrance in the pages of the new book. đ The day my mom and dad will buy me the book set for my next class. How excited I used to be. Readers are leaders
Are We Just Puppets?
The life of a puppet - oh cool! Wait! What!!! A PUPPET? Although I was confident enough that I was and continue to be one of those people who live life by their own decisions, I went into a dilemma when this title 'the life of a puppet' popped up in my mind. I am no puppet I said. I have lived life with my own choices. No one ever controlled me, I told myself. Yet I keep questioning myself - Have I? This led to an hour of searching my past for the answer. The Conclusion - every thing that happened after my father made that decision of sending me to Kota, Rajasthan, happened because of my own choices. Phew! Then why this title you ask - This title because sometimes, somehow we all find a way to blame others for your conditions. I'll be true there were many times when this thought crossed my mind that somebody else is to blame for my condition, for my bad results, for my scratched car, for my breakups, for me getting caught playing around the loopholes of my university's attendance system and the list goes on. I'm sure, at some point of time. you must have found yourself blaming others like i did. But if someone else is to blame then how was the path leading to that particular condition my choice and how wasn't I a puppet? (Let us all take a moment and think about what just happen.) It was bad luck, I didnât expect that, This question wasnât supposed to come in the exam, He/she shouldnât have done that, etc. In all the other excuses there was some part that I did. And I realized that the longer I was blaming others  for anything that happened to me and neglecting the âIâ in all those excuses, the longer i, myself, was justifying the fact that somehow someone else or something else is controlling what is happening to me. This simply meant that I was justifying the fact that I was a puppet. The moment I realized that I was somehow responsible for every situation I faced. I was able to take control. And isnât that what life is all about that? Taking control. Isnât that the only purpose? I donât want to be a preacher, and l luckily I am not one. But I sure am looking for the answer for the above asked question. If you like me believe that the answer is yes then  give the following a thought. Maktoob - It is written, by the same hand who created everything. (Quran and all the other religious books) But if all is written, then even after taking everything is control arenât we all still his puppets?
Arenât we all his puppets?