Human attention is the most heavily hunted, mined and traded resource on the planet.
If you are on social media a lot, you are the one being bought and sold.
I see people who spend nearly all their time looking at their phone, and when the phone goes away, they are lost. They have nothing of their own. They don’t know what to do. They have no goals of their own to work towards. They have become a product of the machine, and lost some percentage of themselves in the process.
When I go on YouTube, I can feel myself getting sucked in. I can be there for hour after senseless hour. What I want is mixed in with what I don’t. It takes a lot of self-control to resist.
Can you sit alone for two hours by yourself, no device, with a pad or journal and some pens and work towards your better future?
Can you walk outside without a device and engage with the world without it?
It’s a start.
Protect your attention.
This! I permanently deleted a social media account over a year ago and I feel more connected to the world around me.. Much less anxiety, too. Don’t miss it one bit.
Thanks Larry for the reminder!!
Social Media is addictive and destructive!!
PS Grwat job on Dakar!! 👏👏👏
Less phone time = better life.
Go, Mike.
Device usage is the single biggest contributor to lack of accomplishments. Social skills are gone in a lot of ways. I find it interesting that they call it “ social media” when it’s destroying the ability to personalize being social.