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I always think one of the most interesting places to observe this is in the gym. The notion of reading a book between sets is super weird but scrolling is perfectly normal. Even just staring into space / at the floor and just focusing on breathing it’s easy to feel awkward and self-conscious. And when you look around, people are scrolling, sometimes for so long that you know you’ll never get the machine after their 5 minute set breaks (I’d like to add that I too scroll and am guilty of the long set breaks, but it’s just so bizarre how the notion of sitting alone, thinking and breathing is so uncommon compared to scrolling)
