[jxramos]

I had a tangible feel for this "addiction" one time when I let my phone run out of battery and I had it next to my laptop. Whenever there was a lull at work or something got hard and I needed a mental break I'd reach for my phone only to pick it up and find an unresponsive black screen. I must have picked it up some six times before it finally hit me how frequently I go to pick up that thing. Somehow the shock of rediscovering the off-state repeatedly and forgetting it really sunk the frequency of the formed habit into my mind. The habit was tangible in that moment.