What’s the difference between addiction and overuse? The majority of the time we’re discussing tech “addiction”, we’re actually describing overuse Addiction is a pathology. It’s defined as a persistent compulsive dependency on a behavior or substance that harms the user. It’s something that’s incredibly hard to stop. Addiction has three components: - It requires a person with a predilection for addiction - It requires the product - It requires pain that the user cannot cope with in a healthier manner It’s only in the confluence of these three things that addiction occurs. If one of these three factors is missing, addictions don’t form. Understanding the difference is important because when we throw these terms around so loosely, they become meaningless. It’s disrespectful to people actually suffering from addiction and it disempowers people who pathologize a problem they could do something about if they tried. Part of what determines our ability to change our behavior is whether or not we believe we can. When we claim that we’re “addicted” to something when we’re not, we give that thing too much power over us. Let’s put things in perspective so we can fight back at distraction. #Indistractable #BehaviorChange #GrowthMindset …see more