Leaving Digital Distraction For A Life Of Focus
The impression I got was that of someone suffering through solitude deprivation as Cal Newport calls it. She didn’t now how to be in a momentary state of solitude, even with her father present.
A screen, now, or else I’ll elevate this to tantrum levels.
We don’t have to live a life of distraction. And if you can go cold turkey with it, more power to you.
We just need to be real with each other in this mess of the digital distraction era.
We have to break up with things in our past which serve no purpose with the person we are suppose to become.
The daily grind is brimming with distractions from all angles. It’s all the distractions you were accustomed to not only on August 31, but all the previous dates. Distraction reigns supreme as the enemy when attempting big change, but even more so small, incremental daily shifts in the right direction. Once you identify your goal, you break it down to the daily. You find what you can do daily which contributes to this lofty change.
Facial expressions and hearing others speak to us in this age of digital distraction is nothing short of gold at this stage. Because this is what downloads into our personhood, giving us dignity, and moving towards development into the people we are becoming.
It’s the pursuit of those purpose driven items, working towards daily progress in those items, where we make the difference we desire and avoid the commotion at the same time.
It’s quite something to get the whole world to focus on one thing.
It’s really something to get one person to focus on one thing.
Our awareness then, as a scanning mechanism of our environment, is greatly affected if we are looking for where God is showing up in the midst of our present moment.
Knowing something about someone online is just like reading a book about them. But hearing their inflection in their tone, smelling the room you are both in, glancing out the window behind them and seeing the blazing setting sun, these items create a full experience attached to the knowledge you are gaining about them.
Clearly we need to have inputs in order to have outputs. But minimizing low quality and high frequency inputs fosters the necessary space to create, and create well.
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