Quit Social Media - Tedtalk

I love this TED talk too!!
And I highly recommend Cal Newport's book DEEP WORK!

It's been helping me A LOT!!

 

Amazing talk, thanks for sharing. I think the fragmentation of attention is a really nice point and it is destroying society. You can't go to anywhere without people constantly glancing at their phones. We watch our media on tablets/PC with Facebook open in the background. That's why I love going to the theatre or the cinema - because you are fully invested in just that one thing that you're doing whereas when I'm doing things at home there just too many distractions. I do quite like the forum like this because you log in, use it then log off - it's not fully there in the background. I do so also get those little jolts of anxiety when I see a new email on my phone because I'm not sure if it's coming from work or not so even at home I don't really ever switch off.

I am very tempted to delete my Facebook. I barely use it these days anyway. It really is just a bunch of people that I once barely cared about and haven't actually spoken to in a very long timed it really is just another distraction in my life. I signed up for Twitter once and never used it but I still get constant emails from them.

I also think I'm going to delete my email off my phone and go back to the old school of logging into it once a day and dealing with it all there and then. I think I'd actually be much more productive as I get so many emails that arrive when I'm doing something else and I swipe them off thinking "yeah I'll sort that later" but then never do.

 

His book encourages us to STRENGTHEN OUR ATTENTION MUSCLES, and one suggestion that he makes is that we should not urge to always go to our phones(to get that dopamine dose) when in a moment of boredom (like say, waiting in a line or at the bathroom), but instead resist the urge and meditate, pray, review your day etc.