Currently reading: Attention Span by Gloria Mark 📚
Time wasting activities such as social media and games might be useful after all:
You may not have thought that low effort mindless activities could help your work. With mindless activity, we can let problems incubate in our minds, and thinking about other things that do not tax our cognitive resources can help us generate solutions. Because positive feelings are associated with more choices of how to act, if we glean positivity and can replenish from rote activity, then it can even potentially help us be more creative. It can reset our emotions back to a desirable state, and this can perhaps explain why we are so attracted to such mindless activity. It can help us achieve a psychological balance.