According to one recent survey, the average white-collar worker spends about six hours a day on email. That doesn’t count time online spent shopping, searching or keeping up with social media. The brain’s craving for novelty, constant stimulation and immediate gratification creates something called a “compulsion loop.” Like lab rats and drug addicts, we need more and more to get the same effect. Click here to read more from Tony Schwartz at the NY Times.

Posted by: Dr. Lynn Alexander, Palo Alto Therapy & Counseling