November 19th, 2018 by G. I discovered lately that our time-to-recovery from fights goes down if I go on a social media fast.  Apparently it shifts the brain’s cost-benefit calculus and being lonely and miserable doesn’t look so tolerable any more without cheap distractions.  I literally experience my mind gearing up to persuade me that the slights weren’t so bad, really, and faults on both sides. ...
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