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Giving Up Your Life

Feb 15, 2026  ·  Transcript of the video.

100,000 hours is the amount of time you might press pause on your life while doom scrolling on social media

If you are just slightly above average

That is all it takes just slightly above average and boom, deleted a hundred thousand hours of hours of your life. You know what a hundred thousand hours is? That’s another life.

and I’m just saying this because if you don’t get your doom scrolling behaviors under control, that’s what you’re offering up. You’re offering up of basically your life transparently. You do you.