Stop Doomscrolling. Start Focusing. A 4-Week Digital Wellness Cohort.

Riz Vazir

Founder at Scroll By Choice

You opened Instagram. Then Reddit. Then email. 47 minutes gone.

You already know it's happening.

Five hours a day. That's the average daily phone use after work. Not work email. Not Zoom calls. Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, news, and whatever opened up when you meant to check one thing.

Five hours a day is 76 full days a year.

Seventy-six days. Gone. Not to rest. Not to the people you care about. Not to the project you keep meaning to start. To an endless feed that was engineered, by teams of behavioral scientists, working full time to make sure you never quite feel like stopping.

And it's costing you more than time. Research links chronic digital stress and poor screen-related sleep to $4,000+ in additional healthcare costs annually from metabolic issues to burnout to the kind of low-grade exhaustion that makes everything harder.

The dinner where you were there but not really there. The conversation you half-listened to. The creative idea that never surfaced because your brain never got quiet enough to find it.

You've tried app limits. They don't stick. You've tried putting your phone in another room. It migrates back. You've read the articles... probably on your phone.

If a YouTube video was going to fix this problem, it already would have.

What you’ll learn

Four weeks. One framework. A different relationship with your phone, tablet and laptop for good.

  • Take the Choice Score and get a precise baseline of what your phone use is actually costing you in focus, sleep, and presence.

  • Identify your specific energy drains and attention traps — the exact patterns pulling your attention away without you realizing it.

  • Get introduced to the Digital Wellness Trampoline, the three-part framework that structures everything you'll build over the next four week

  • Learn about persuasive design techniques built to exploit your brain.

  • Discover how macro trends like nostalgia are engineered into content to keep you watching — and what that means for your sense of agency.

  • Build a practical toolset of micro-habits that counterbalance compulsive use — without requiring discipline you don't have spare.

  • Understand through neuroscience why checking email, Slack, and AI tools feels compulsive — and why it's leaving you more drained, not less.

  • Explore how digital fatigue from always-on productivity tools drives burnout in office professionals; through real case studies.

  • Build a micro-habit plan that gives you a healthier relationship with productivity and AI tools — so they work for you, not against you.

  • Understand why FOMO feels so powerful — and how variable reward mechanics, the same ones behind slot machines, are built into every feed.

  • Discover how to cultivate real-world rewards that your brain values more than a notification — and finally break the comparison loop.

  • Optionally: work with Riz 1:1 to build a personalized digital wellness plan using your Choice Score results from week one as your baseline.

Learn directly from Riz

Riz Vazir

Riz Vazir

4,000+ people helped. Microsoft. Northwestern University. Digital Wellness.

Couse Alumni Work At:
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Who this course is for

  • People Managers: You check email in bed. Your team notices your habits. This cohort helps you model the focus you ask of others.

  • Parents: You can't ask your kids to put their devices down while you're scrolling. Learn the framework to model the change first.

  • High Performers: Deep work and thinking quality are your edge. Chronic distraction dulls it. This cohort helps you to protect it.

What's included

Riz Vazir

Live sessions

Learn directly from Riz Vazir in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Oct 3—Oct 4

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Week 2

Oct 5—Oct 11

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Schedule

Live sessions

1 hr / week

This time is for you to learn live with Riz. It's a combination of lecture - ton of discussion (and debate).

Projects

1-2 hrs / week

Like most things, the value you get out of this course depends on the effort you are willing to put into it. You'll have the option for 1:1 coaching with Riz as well as an opportunity to develop your own personalized digital wellness plan.

Async content

1-3 hrs / week

Digital wellness is an emerging space with new research and solutions each day. I'll do my best to present you not only with what's current in this field but also with the background research information that supports everything you learn. You are welcome to dive deep into it, or not :)

Take the Choice Score — free, 3 minutes

The same assessment you'll use in week one of the cohort. Find out where your attention is leaking before the course even starts.

Riz's podcast with The Parenting Reboot Podcast

The Digital Wellness Trampoline — published framework

The three-part framework this cohort is built on, published by FOSI — the Family Online Safety Institute. Read it before you enroll.

Riz interviewed by Boston Children's Hospital Digital Wellness Lab

A student researcher at BCH's Digital Wellness Lab interviews Riz on AI, screen time, and what it means to use technology intentionally.

Riz's podcast with BrainTrainr Podcast

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