Slowing down the train in my head
Podcast overload
This is exactly what's happening now; it's why we can't do anything without some sort of noise in the background. It's why we have to watch a TikTok whilst also watching another TikTok.
Smartphones increased our tolerance for dopamine. The dopamine that we receive from good moments in life is no longer enough, at the bare minimum we need the feeling of doing some AND using our phone at the same time.
Van Neistat is using podcasts to silence voices in his head.
Quitting audiobooks. They too easily become consumption as a way of occupying your mind and avoiding deep thought. Not actually reading.
Reading paper books with a pen puts me into an active engagement with the knowledge in front of me.
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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Read one thing and think, yeah that’s enough for today. That's enough to chew on.
