Frequent phone notifications, social media aside, must have some negative impact on quality of life.
In the worst cases, I've worked with people who had notifications go off every 2-3 minutes. I can't help but assume this destroys their ability to focus and turns every mental task into a herculean effort as they must backtrack so frequently.
Every context switch makes them forget what we spoke about, or what we were working on. Notifications turn their phones into literal torture devices.
Disable as many notifications as humanly possible, and make it the highest priority to reduce how many times per day your phone interrupts you.
I've never been as afraid in a car as when my "crypto-bro" cousin picked me up to drive 3 hours and he basically had a scrolling wall of notifications and tried to 'absorb' as much as possible; news, crypto, memes, stocks, business, you name it... horrible 5 hours.
In the worst cases, I've worked with people who had notifications go off every 2-3 minutes. I can't help but assume this destroys their ability to focus and turns every mental task into a herculean effort as they must backtrack so frequently.
Every context switch makes them forget what we spoke about, or what we were working on. Notifications turn their phones into literal torture devices.
Disable as many notifications as humanly possible, and make it the highest priority to reduce how many times per day your phone interrupts you.