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• Delete apps and ACCOUNTS you know are just wasting your time. Be honest make your pros and cons list and you'll see how weak the pros are and how easily replaced they can be. I'll be talking more about that later.

• Listen to audiobooks or podcasts—If you have this hunger for knowledge you"ll fill happier about yourself if you listen to a podcast. Insteed of scrolling and forgeting everything you saw through cheap knowledge. Especially while doing harder tasks like chores. Let your mind stay engaged. And making the hard chore not as boring or hard.

• Use scheduling or tracking apps to become aware of where your time is actually going. And you will spend more time organizing. (I use ticktick for example, i see people also using Structured but i thinks good if you can pay the premium) Investigate.

• Get serious about your goals. Who are you trying to become? What does your future self look like? If you have a strong image of what you are, your potential and what you want to be you'll get disgusted at times doing the wrong thing. Constant reminders, wallpapers, quotes, simbols...

• Now do your uncomfortable math: calculate how many years of your life are going into screen time. You'll feel incredible surprised and ashemed of how much time you saw people getting stuff done insteed of you starting anything.

The Real Cost of Your Smartphone (Average: 5h/day) in my country

- Hours in your day: 5 hours. This is practically one-third of your waking hours (assuming 16 hours of activity). And then you complain that you don't have time to study, to learn a skill that could generate income, or that time simply flies by... And you feel that anxiety at the end of the day (well, at least in my case). When I’m not on it as much, I feel like the day has twice as many hours.

- Hours in your month: 150 hours. That’s 7 full days every month without ever taking your eyes off your phone.

- Days in your year: 76 days. Every year, you "disappear" from the real world for two and a half months.

- Years of your adolescence (ages 12-18): 1.2 years. Out of the 6 years in this critical stage, more than one is lived entirely through a screen. This is when we have the most time and when we grow the most, as neuroplasticity makes learning so much easier.

- In 30 years (since 60 feels too far away): 6 years. Six years of your life gone.

- Years of your adult life (60-year projection): 12.5 years. If you keep this habit, you will spend more than a decade of your maturity "inside" a phone. You could have completed two degrees and a master's in that time.

• Add friction. That’s the key. Make distractions harder to access and less appealing. Leave your phone in the furthest room in your house. Lazy people like me can't even get the strenght to go to the kitchen. You'll find more appealing your book on the table.

• Have a deep introspective phase. Really question if your time is going in the right direction. Write down pros and cons—you’ll probably notice the “pros” are weak.

• Your social media addiction isn’t random. It fills something deeper: the need to be understood, seen, or feel intelligent. Once you identify that, replace it with something healthier—but equally meaningful. Journaling for feeling understood, reading for learning, strategy games for feeling smart, you name it. And getting real conversations. Talking deeply with your family. Helps a lot.

• Turn off your watch history. When content feels less “personalized,” it loses its grip. The magic of these platforms is that they mirror you—your interests, your identity. You think everyone is feeling the same, when they are just throwing back at you what you whant to hear. When something is free, you are the product.

• Make your healthy habits more visible and accessible. As i said leave your book on the table and take it everywhere.

• Meditate. Relax your mind, think clearly about what you are doing. Whe tend to escape from ourselfs. You'll find gold in there.

• Exercise—even lightly. Yoga, pilates… it counts. People say they release strong emotions while exersicing, let's give it a try. And everyone knows how good its to the body, and how the body and mind are one, so you already know how it goes. It helps a lot in your focus, and makes incrases drastically your cuality of studying or any demanding task.

• Go for walks. Touch some grass, please, when nature is happy so are you. Visit a library or any space where you feel calm and focused. Your environment shapes you more than you think.

I know it’s not easy. But the more uncomfortable it feels, the more you know it’s working.

Curretly happening whit: I who have never known men - Jacqueline Harpman

This reminds me of a quote I heard somewhere:

“Of course you don’t fit in, if you were meant to stand out.”

As Elle dives deeper into the Harvard environment and tries to be taken seriously, we notice a subtle but significant shift: her wardrobe becomes darker, more subdued—less “Elle.” This visual change mirrors a quiet internal struggle. Although she’s growing and learning, she also starts to disconnect from parts of herself in an attempt to “belong” in a space that seems to reject everything she naturally is.

It’s as if, after confronting Warner and realizing he still sees her as less-than, Elle starts to unconsciously tone herself down—not just emotionally, but visually. Her style, once bright, bold, and unapologetically hers, becomes more neutral and conservative. This reflects a moment where even she doubts if being herself is enough. It's not total loss—but it is a moment of dimming her own light.

However, through her own efforts and accomplishments—ones that completely break the stereotype—Elle learns something crucial: that in the end, she only has herself. And that the opinions of others are subjective, fleeting, and ultimately irrelevant if they don’t align with what she knows and feels about herself. This marks the beginning of a deep emotional transformation.

The subjectivity of external opinion is made even clearer when Warner is shocked she got in, simply because he didn’t. As Vivian says, he was waitlisted. His disbelief wasn’t about Elle’s lack of potential, but his own insecurity.

But the turning point comes when she remembers who she is, especially after the encouragement of Professor Stromwell, and later when she takes on Brooke’s case. In reclaiming her strengths—her intuition, warmth, and optimism—Elle doesn’t just succeed; she shines. And with that, the pink comes back. The light returns. Not because she gave in to Harvard—but because she made Harvard meet her on her terms.

From seeking external validation to developing internal self-affirmation. She stops building her self-worth on what others think, and starts being unapologetically herself. She stops interpreting rejection as proof of her inadequacy and instead uses it as fuel to move forward. She not only reaches her goals—she exceeds them. This process involves embracing her authentic self: keeping her style, her kindness, her unique perspective—without sacrificing her ambition.

Her authenticity, far from being a weakness, becomes her greatest strength. And that’s what leads her to real success.

Elle Woods proves that success isn’t about fitting into someone else’s mold—but about having enough confidence in who you are, to move forward without fear.