Leaving Digital Distraction For A Life Of Focus
Ever find yourself with stacks on stacks of dream journals/goal setting apps/vision boards? How about half finished notebooks? Like stacks of them? I heard author Jon Acuff say this a few times. He has half filled notebooks of ideas instead of finishing one notebook. This wouldn’t be a problem if, say, he referred to them …
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It’s seemingly counter-productive to begin the process of retreating away from social media connectivity during a global pandemic. 100 years ago this wasn’t even a choice during the Spanish Flu, so there isn’t much to go off in terms of examples. I can’t find someone’s notes back then on how they avoided TikTok so they …
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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Not being in a hurried rush means becoming present to people around us. People we weren’t seeing as we went by in a blur with our daily to-do list. Or thrown off mid conversation by our phone notifications. Or an increase in our distractibility overall. What is the place we incorrectly desire to be distracted …
Continue reading “Strength In Solitude Part 1: Into The Wilderness”
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 