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Why fighting distraction with willpower often backfires

I set my phone to grayscale to make it less appealing but now I just look at it longer trying to figure out what things are.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Resistance to what we crave often increases the craving.

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“Where Are You with Attention as scarce resource?”

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