Ask HN: How to get boring once again?

Growing up in middle class family, I had almost no internet access till high school. I could read a book till hours and no one would bother me. I was not affected by any social media announcements or fast track news making my brain(tinkered by thousand years of evolution) go into panic stage. Life was more routined and controlled as I wanted to be. Less access to resources meaning I had to work around solutions and do things creatively without pressure of posting it on internet.

Now, I get distracted by so many new things coming up. Each new venue or event brings up a new opportunity. I am in my mid 20s and planning to get married. So, I have to invest in future like Mutual funds, stocks etc. I have to think about buying a house in next 10 years as the real estate prices are going up. I have a decent paying job but I have a fear that it will not be be enough for my retirement. So, I have either invest in opportunities like NFTs, cyrptocurrency, real estate etc. or start working on my own startup. I wanted to learn a lot of things but keep getting distracted.

So, how can I get boring once again? Boringly passionate about what I want to do. Is there any stream where I can work in and feel safe about it? Or Is it even possible for the remanants of Industrial Age to work in boringly passionate way as this doesn't suit work style of information age?

PS: I am looking for specific techniques, tricks or strategies which anyone has applied in their life and working for them. I am already going through the abstract advices on life goals, philosophy, values, beliefs etc.

Options:

* Go into academia and publish often. This will not pay well but you can do ok and you can enter the corporate world at a later time for a high salary but it will feel like working with children.

* Become a military officer. This is a highly focused lifestyle befitting an operationally minded person who lives in the moment with constant stress balanced against a cool resolve. If you want to enter senior management you will become a short term academic at CGSC and the war college in addition to your prior fast paced life. To summarize the military life is to condense real world career struggles into a quarter of the time, plus life and death consequences, but without the fear of becoming spontaneously unemployed. You won’t get wealthy in the military either, but you can become extremely well compensated (wealthy compared to average persons but dirt poor compared to the equivalent responsibilities in the corporate world).

* Become a JavaScript developer. As a JavaScript developer the incompetence is an industry norm so you can easily achieve a highly salary with minimal time investment. Salaries are inflated and expectations are low. JavaScript developers will often complain about stresses that do not seem to exist, as compared to the academic or military life, plainly indicating that stress is relative. This is the easy life unless the industry matures, at which point many developers will quickly find themselves disqualified from practice without a fallback option.

Please keep in mind that your current "I have to x" may have been manufactured (or at least partially influenced) by the same attention-grabbing machinery you now want to escape from, so I suggest you keep some healthy wiggle room to accommodate new insights on what may or may not be essential for you in the future.

- Academia: I have often pondered over that thought and I find it a space for myself in the long term. But not going into academia but working as consultant with Academia while working my day job(a low paying which would give me freedom of time to pursue these threads). Not only academia is relatively slow paced so lesser work pressure but rewarding in terms of growth.

- Military: Many people in my neighbourhood have taken the same route and are enjoying their life. However, their savings were not enough to let them enjoy life in a city. They can only live their life in a small town.

- JavaScript developer: This is a very tempting thread which I am willing to pursue on. My founder with 40 years of experience said similar things. People will complain about java script but Javascript is not going to die. New flavours may keep coming in but it will not go away.

- Replace your smartphone: I can't completely abandon my smartphone but yes I have uninstalled lots of attention seeking apps from my phone. I use social media via web browser which is less addictive as compared to smartphone. I keep all notifications off.

- News: Yes, I have stopped reading online news.

- Free: I totally agree with this advice. I have stopped looking for freebies. I only use paid products as much as possible(even for gmail, youtube etc.). Only freebies are taken in when I am trying something new.

- Books: I have an affinity towards self help books which I am planning to cut down. I have to start looking for the solution inward as compared to outward.

- Technology: Yes and No - my job involves catching up to latest technology and implementing technology which came into market 10 years ago. I guess 10 years could be a good batch size.

- Text based browser: My niece of 5 year old is more knowledgable as compared to me when I was 5 years old. It is not that he is genetically smart or better than me. The mediums via which he is learning video, audio, pictures etc. as compared to text make him understand things faster and better. Now, whenever I have to understand a new concept I always go through video tutorial, podcast or a blog with flowcharts and diagrams. I am able to connect the dots faster.

- Stocks and house prices: This is one part where I still don't have a clarity on. I feel manipulated by the bigger forces of the market.