Ever feel stressed, burnt out and overstimulated? Come the end of last year, that was me in a nutshell. I'd been juggling too many plates, working long hours, training for a marathon, and trying to maintain a modicum of a social life, too. Side effects of burnout, for those of you wondering, are inability to concentrate, brain fog and lack of focus - so when a TikTok popped up on my For You page (ironic, I know) about muting notifications, I started to think.
So much of our lives are spent in front of screens. One Deloitte study from 2016 found that we look at our phones an average of 47 times a day - for younger people, that's closer to 82. Meanwhile, back in 2013, Apple boasted that 7.4 trillion push notifications had been pushed through its servers.
