Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
The path to happiness is to reduce your exposure to online-bullshit. See the 2-Step-Digital-Detox below:
Selective Ignorance (Reducing Contact With Bullshit)!
Everything you distracted yourself with today was some combination of the following: Irrelevant, time-consuming, negative, unimportant, unactionable, or fucking stupid.
Obese people consume too many calories of no nutritional value and from the wrong sources—and morons online take in way too much nonsense information.
You can’t pay attention to everything, and you can’t own every silly gadget.
Don’t give tech the benefit of the doubt—tools have to earn their stay. Get specific about how, why, and when you use something. Don’t use the internet without a purpose (this is when boobtube happens).
The Two-Step Digital Detox
The best way to eradicate exposure to online-bullshit is through a Digital-Detox:
Step 1: Take a break from optional tech for seven days (everything besides a Kindle is optional !). During the break , explore activities that you find satisfying and meaningful—and that are unrelated to the internet.
For example, I picked up reading (Before this, I was a dumb-ass college student who hadn’t read a book from cover to cover).
Step 2: At the end of the break, reintroduce optional tech. For each thing you reintroduce, determine what value it serves in your life and how specifically you will use it so as to optimize return-on-investment.
Ask: Would I still do this if my doctor told me I had cancer?