Leaving Digital Distraction For A Life Of Focus
Now to shift our attention on this blog. By shifting to exactly that, attention. My previous articles set up the problem we face collectively with attention hijacking technologies, our lack of healthy solitude, our inability to remove distractions from our lives, and more. Building habits to focus our attention will be a massive topic on …
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An entire generation has “eliminated time alone with their thoughts from their lives,” and subsequently, it is this young generation who is experiencing tremendous spikes in anxiety and mental health deterioration. The quoted line above is found on page 108 from the book Digital Minimalism by computer professor Cal Newport. The generation in question is …
Continue reading “Strength In Solitude Part 2: This Anxious Generation”
We were created with pursuit on our hearts after something, and, to have the appreciation grow in the midst of such pursuit.
We keep going back to this trough of slop. This thing which stirs our emotions and whips us into a frenzy. A place filled with darkness and hate and anxiety. Leaving us zapped, void of hope and utterly confused how to proceed next. The trough is our online communities and the slop are the feeds. …
We can’t get back into the wilderness, the eremos in Greek, a place of solitude and stillness, because our attentions are being held captive by incredibly powerful forces on the web. When I started researching what I noticed as a severe problem I experienced, an inability to focus inside the digital realm, I found the …
“My aim here is to continue in the spirit of the work laid out by people like Comer, Newport, Sullivan, who have jump started my own path towards a return to healthy stillness and solitude.”
Return To Eremos 