You are not broken. You have gotten very good at leaving.
Can you put the phone down?
Most people say yes. Then they check it while the kettle boils, at the table, next to their kid. A few short questions. Three minutes. No account. At the end you see if you still can.
See if you still can →No account. No app blocker. Just the mirror.
You have stayed on this screen for
00:00s.
The average person leaves at 00:47s.
01 / THE MYTH
The eight-second goldfish stat was made up in 2015. You can still binge a show or a conversation for four hours. Your brain isn't broken. Your thumb is just trained to bail the second a moment gets slow.
02 / THE MECHANISM
Forty-seven seconds is how long people now choose to stay on one screen (UC Irvine). Every swipe is a rep in leaving. And your memory edits out the forty dull skips, leaving real life to compete with a highlight reel.
03 / THE STAY
Delete an app and the leaving just moves to another tab. The phone is not the opponent—the feeling you are leaving is. The test shows you where you leave. The stay is how you stop.