Tech is no substitute for depth 🤔
So when I talk about digital detoxing, for example, the number one step is to understand psychological discomfort. It's to understand that boredom is telling you, the emotion is telling you, I am underwhelmed with life. This life doesn't excite me.
The response is not Netflix. The response is how can I make my life more exciting? And once you get th
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
amazon.comEmbrace boring and single-purpose technology. Digital distractions are so seductive because they seem to offer the chance of escape to a realm where painful human limitations don’t apply: you need never feel bored or constrained in your freedom of action, which isn’t the case when it comes to work that matters (here). You can combat this problem by
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all trying to figure out our own customs for getting free of it.
That's why I don't have an iPhone, for example; the last thing I
want is for the Internet to follow me out into the world.
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My latest trick is taking long hikes. I used to think running was a
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a p
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