We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it works because we’re solving symptoms not the root cause. The root is our inability and cowardice to face ourselves, the thoughts, feelings and the pain that comes along. So we indulge in excessive sen... See more
Devansh Tomarsubstack.comDevansh Tomar (@devanshtomar)
The endless diversion offered to us in every instant we are within reach of our phones means we never have to do the difficult work of figuring out how to live with our own minds.
Chris Hayes • Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here Is How I Mastered My Own.
What’s making us uncomfortable, in other words, is this feeling of losing control—a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our phone during our child’s bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism
The binge eating and compulsive spending, the perfectionism and procrastination, the ways we habitually go into hiding.