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I was told this 3 weeks in to an Outward Bound course in the colorado wilderness when I was 18.
It has stayed with me my whole life now (i'm 43!) and I think of it often.
There's also the long-standing idea that people come up with great/interesting ideas while in the shower (so much that it's an internet meme), and that's attributed to the shower being one of the few places where you don't have media or electronics trying to capture your attention.
Sometimes I wonder if our preoccupation with information consumption is a catalyst for our inability to have epiphanic thought. We’d probably have more Einstein-like breakthroughs in science if we weren’t constantly reading to find the answer and instead let our minds connect into the collective consciousness that already knows all.
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"hyperactive intensification leads to an abrupt switch into hyperpassivity; now one obeys every impulse or stimulus without resistance. Instead of freedom, it produces new constraints. It is an illusion to believe that being more active means being freer.
"Without the “excluding instincts” Nietzsche praises, action scatters into restless, hyperactive reaction and abreaction. In a pure state, activity only prolongs what is already available. In contrast, a real turn to the Other presupposes the negativity of an interruption. Only by the negative means of making-pause can the subject of action thoroughly measure the sphere of contingency (which is unavailable when one is simply active)."
"The Burnout Society" - Byung-Chul Han
I can’t, I gotta check hackernews
Has anyone experimented with having a "dumb phone" and taking that with them just in-case people need to contact them or for emergencies? Lately, I've had a few times when I accidentally left my phone at home and after an hour or so realized how much fun I've had without it.
Does the study really suggest not checking the news then?
> The thinking group expected to enjoy the task significantly less than the news-checking group, but afterward, the two groups reported similar enjoyment levels. Does the study really suggest not checking the news then?
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Well, that and the world is a pretty terrible place. Think about it for too long and you'll get pretty depressed.
The trick is not to think about it. I stopped following the 24 hour news cycle a some time last decade and my quality of life improved radically. I curate what I read myself, with RSS feeds, Reddit subscriptions and whatever happens to get to the front page of Hacker News =) I don't need to know up to the minute death tolls from COVID the war in Ukraine or the latest natural disaster. I don't need to know which polit…
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iOS has it, it’s called focus mode. But good luck actually having the resolve to stay in it. (Plus the app drawer kinda defeats the idea again).
Yes. The idea is great: hide some of the screens when in focus mode. Problems: cannot totally disable apps like in the app usage settings. And there you cannot really schedule blocks where you can access them. Also: the allowed apps list has a bug which makes it unusable. I have no idea why these two features are distinct. (mean thought: maybe apple doesn’t actually want us to use it properly?)