Show Notes
If your screen time is creeping up… If your phone feels impossible to put down… If the real world is starting to look a bit dull by comparison…
This week I’m testing a free, surprisingly simple method that claims to reduce doomscrolling fast.
No apps. No discipline hacks. No expensive “digital detox” retreats.
Just one setting change.
In this episode we discuss:
How color and contrast hijack your dopamine system Why overstimulation can make the real world feel flat The “gray scale” method and how to set it up And why I realised I needed to fix this — urgently
I’m committing to a full week of gray scale to see if it genuinely reduces screen time.
If you try it too, let me know what happens.
The Instructions To enable grayscale on an iPhone, navigate to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters, then toggle "Color Filters" on and select "Grayscale" To turn on grayscale on Android, go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls > Bedtime mode and enable "Grayscale"
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I’ll report back with the results.
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