Earlier quoted context omitted.
ROT13: fyvgure.vb
slither.io?
Wished I never saw this comment :)
Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
131–140 of 193 posts
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't emphasize enough what an impact this approach had for me. I suffered from sleep anxiety and insomnia. Took trazodone for years. It lost its potency and I wanted to get off the sleep drugs. Then I discovered history podcasts. The only ones that work have a single person talking and no ads intermixed with the podcast episode. Usually I'm asleep five minutes into the podcast. Then when I wake in the morning, I l…
Are there any specific podcasts you would recommend?
For history stuff, I just love: https://historyofeverythingpodcast.com
The creator got started on TikTok doing weird history trivia with is wife and has started a podcast after that.
For my "going to sleep" podcasts, I use "The Indicator from Planet Money" (the ads are a bit distracting at times), "More or Less" (facts about numbers in the news), "Robot or Not" and "Ungeniused". All are long enough to fall asleep to, but interesting enough to start listening.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#133I did a one hour float tank session before. It’s very interesting and kinda hard experience being with only yourself floating in water for a full hour.
I've enjoyed sensory deprivation tanks like this, but to be perfectly honest, I feel like I can let my mind wander the same way when I wake up an hour before my alarm goes off and manage to resist picking up my phone.
But even resisting the urge takes brain cycles. One day you’ll reach the level of being happy not to have the choice - put the phone in another room and be fine with it.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are other good mobile strategies? I need my phone to keep an eye on some work stuff + elderly parents on WhatsApp, but clearly parts of the phone are neurologically optimized to keep me distracted (and it works!) So what are other good ways to fight this?
Go to accessibility settings and make the display grayscale.
This is a neat trick. I wonder if my eyes would just get used to see B&W phone content and keep going.
A neat app would be a 5' slow fade off that eventually locks your phone. You can just unlock to keep going but at least you know 5' have gone by.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a good guide to follow with kids: https://www.fiftydangerousthings.com Our kid started with a knife when they were around 2 or 3. A dull-ish slightly serrated one first and graduated to an actual kitchen knife at 4. Got their first actual outdoor knife for their 5th birthday.
I got a Swiss army knife when I was maybe ten. I never really used it for anything. I've done lots of outdoors things but I've never quite understood why people find knives so useful.
How can you do "lots of outdoor things" and not need a knife?
That's what you use to do kindling, cut firewood to a smaller size, open any food packaging you might have, cut up ingredients for food etc etc.
Swiss army knives are kinda useless though. Leatherman-style pliers + stuff utility knives are a lot more useful in the modern world. You need pliers a lot more than a wine bottle opener or a toothpick :)
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
My friends who are parents feel so guilty if they ever look at their phone while with kids. That message might have gotten through too strongly.
Why does that seem to be 'too strongly'? Just like how being very fit requires some level of guilt with eating cake, so too does avoiding overuse of smartphones.
Cause parents, especially young new ones, are constant target of guilting. All it achieves is that parents are more stressed and dont allow themselves rest or relax ... which makes them to be even more stressed. And it is not helping kids at all.
Also, most fit people I know eat cake with no quilt. A lot of physical activity goes with more eating.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#137There is some interesting discussion in the analysis portion of the paper that resonated deeply with me. >However, the fact that participants underestimated the potential task motivation during the thinking period may indicate that people avoid thinking not because it is aversive but because it is expected to be aversive. >Such an inaccurate expectation may lead people to unnecessarily avoid spending time thinking in…
What are other good mobile strategies? I need my phone to keep an eye on some work stuff + elderly parents on WhatsApp, but clearly parts of the phone are neurologically optimized to keep me distracted (and it works!) So what are other good ways to fight this?
I found that linking a smartwatch (Garmin VA4) to my phone enabled me to check relevant notifications without touching the phone for hours.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#138Try to for a moment enjoy the irony and beauty in the fact that a bunch of technocratic tards might realize that the very thing that they created that pays for their mcmansion townhouse in Fremont or Bellevue is actually not good for their health. Movies will be made about this. We are unfortunately cartoons.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#139There is some interesting discussion in the analysis portion of the paper that resonated deeply with me. >However, the fact that participants underestimated the potential task motivation during the thinking period may indicate that people avoid thinking not because it is aversive but because it is expected to be aversive. >Such an inaccurate expectation may lead people to unnecessarily avoid spending time thinking in…
No post body was provided.
Re: Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
#140As I grew older, there are certain things I have learned to enjoy more, such as slowness, inaction, loneliness, boredom. Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there's more: It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as r…
Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.
As a hacker,