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Personally, I find turning off my cellphone and email client to be adequate to work into my schedule several quiet thinking times a week. I usually hike with friends a few times a week but I also use long solo hikes as another resource for thinking.
I am equally a culprit.
I hate hate hate, bitterly, angrily, and even desperately, those fetishes about a better, nicer, more innocent past. We all heard it; we all partake in the orgy of present-bashing and past-glorying before. However, let's wake up and, seriously, get our attention back to the present. Look, yoga and meditation have existed for a looooooong time. And guess what, for every time period, be it modern "over-loaded" time or…
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I turned of notifications of all kinds 99% of them were not worth clicking. I do periodically abstain, but I when I do use I try to stay self-aware. I mentally keep track of how long I've spent, and what I spent my time doing. I then periodically ask if I thought the previous 15 minutes was spent doing something I was interested in or if I was just on autopilot / guided by clickbait. I still use my phone a LOT, but I…
All good tips. I've been using QualityTime (Android only, I think: http://www.qualitytimeapp.com/ ) to measure and track usage daily. Seeing it quantified was a bit of a shock even though I thought I was doing a good job of mentally monitoring myself.
“We believe that we live in the ‘age of information'. That there has been an information ‘explosion,’ an information ‘revolution.’ While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of m…
Sometimes I wonder, what if earth is really flat? What if we thought we were right but instead we were the flat-earthers? What is truth?? EDIT: Well if Trump takes us to war, we will see a lot of fireworks /s.
> Before palatable young white guys who say “bruh” with alarming frequency spun daily monologues into Sony HD cams for audiences of millions? This is racist
Regaining control of your attention doesn't mean not using your phone. It means being self-aware. The author is relying on a crutch. Not using the phone is just removing a single source of distraction, it does nothing to actually help attention regulation. It's like saying, I fixed my impulse issues by never walking in to gas stations, so now I don't have to worry about buying lottery tickets! You didn't fix your imp…
* The internet goes off before bed.
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I didn't know Chrono Trigger was available on mobile. There goes my life, seriously.
Hi there. I made the mistake of paying and playing this game on a smartphone and it is my duty to prevent you from making the same mistake. The controls are absolutely horrible but the worst is really that your phone needs to be connected to the internet in order to play this game. So if you were planning to play this on the plane then you can already give up with this dream.
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Probably just elision for convenience in speech - the same reason the name of the state in which I live is usually pronounced "Merlin". Perhaps ironically, the only person I've met who pronounced the full name was an English fellow.
Hey that's where I am from too. I call it merelan though.
Doesn't have to be complicated:
1. Mute notifications
2. Install Chrome "Timewarp" extension
3. Break work down into bite-sized tasks
1. Perfectionism
2. Fear of not knowing/mental fog (the kind you encounter when learning something new)
3. Fear of futility (that your efforts are in vain)
4. Not knowing where to begin