Fantastic overview, and yes, I think this could be something similar to the "FIRE" movement, which really started with like a small enclave of bloggers, perhaps 10 or so. The entire FIRE movement and minimalism movement started with a small handful of people, passionately talking about it all the time and working on it all the time and posting what they were doing publicly. Society needs this BADLY
It’ll be very interesting to see! The FIRE movement analogy is brilliant! I love the idea of starting with a small enclave testing a strategy and experimenting with different ways of going about it.
I think back to the conversation on phones a few years ago, and we really didn’t know the harm. Now people do I think, but - at least from conversations I have - are caught in a bit of a loop where the strategies they are trying aren’t working, and then there’s a fatigue with cutting down. And they’ve come to accept the slightly unsatisfactory status quo.
For me it feels logical to go from failing at cutting down to trying a more intentional strategy, but it took me quite a bit to get there. I think from talking to people about this, it’s quite a leap for them to believe that intentional silence in one moment might benefit them in the next, or 24/7.
I’d love it if more people tried it. I’d love to see more people experiment with what works over and above “just trying to cut down”. But I’m equally content with people questioning their phone use more, thinking a little differently about things. It’s all good! :-)
That is a killer stat, I hadn't heard that. Just imagining that being shovelled into my mind.
And you are right on the science being indisputable on the damage. The Why has to be settled surely. Now we all have to think harder about the How.
The good news though is that it's really worth doing. The freedom the mind feels when it's not so stuffed with hundreds of old newspapers is pretty joyous.
Fantastic overview, and yes, I think this could be something similar to the "FIRE" movement, which really started with like a small enclave of bloggers, perhaps 10 or so. The entire FIRE movement and minimalism movement started with a small handful of people, passionately talking about it all the time and working on it all the time and posting what they were doing publicly. Society needs this BADLY
It’ll be very interesting to see! The FIRE movement analogy is brilliant! I love the idea of starting with a small enclave testing a strategy and experimenting with different ways of going about it.
I think back to the conversation on phones a few years ago, and we really didn’t know the harm. Now people do I think, but - at least from conversations I have - are caught in a bit of a loop where the strategies they are trying aren’t working, and then there’s a fatigue with cutting down. And they’ve come to accept the slightly unsatisfactory status quo.
For me it feels logical to go from failing at cutting down to trying a more intentional strategy, but it took me quite a bit to get there. I think from talking to people about this, it’s quite a leap for them to believe that intentional silence in one moment might benefit them in the next, or 24/7.
I’d love it if more people tried it. I’d love to see more people experiment with what works over and above “just trying to cut down”. But I’m equally content with people questioning their phone use more, thinking a little differently about things. It’s all good! :-)
This is so spot on.
The science on the damage phones do is indisputable at this point.
As of 2009 we were exposed to 174 newspapers a day.
In the 80's it was closer to 50.
How much info do you think someone in the 1800s was exposed to? Or a
Cave person?
Our brains were not designed for consumption, and they weren't designed to have all the hard parts outsourced.
That is a killer stat, I hadn't heard that. Just imagining that being shovelled into my mind.
And you are right on the science being indisputable on the damage. The Why has to be settled surely. Now we all have to think harder about the How.
The good news though is that it's really worth doing. The freedom the mind feels when it's not so stuffed with hundreds of old newspapers is pretty joyous.