[supersrdjan]

Nono, I specifically mentioned no willpower required. Like in your example of available actions, I also have zero desire to jump out of the window, so don’t have to expend any willpower to resist it. Similarly, on my good days, I don’t feel attracted to my phone. What do you say about that?

[doble-io]

Sounds great! :) I am working on the same thing, trying to go back to my good days haha. Maybe zero desire is not achievable with highly-designed UIs crafted for attention hooks. But yeah, everyone is fighting a similar fight! I was not claiming you said any specifics. Sorry, I could have been clearer in my answer. My goal was to try to explain a little more to other readers because this sentence:

> I don't want to have to lock away the phone from myself or unplug my router.

could lead people into thinking that a state of no distractions could be achieved with no external control. In my opinion, that is unrealistic and probably extremely rare. You will probably need to lock away or add some friction to accessing your phone.

As long as we have smartphones with zero-cost distractions, our reptile brain will need some external control and we can carefully design it.

So my general advice for anyone trying to reduce their doomscrolling time is: keep your environment clean and designed for it - move your phone away and activate do not disturb mode, use extensions to block websites, etc.