I think of making myself useful to your own thoughts for the good of my young life is as crucial as falling in love with a profession or person, if not i can’t be more than average and create a version of life where i get to be an outlier by choice.
The problem with common thinking and peeling back the usual rat life based on social comparison metrices on loop 18/7 in your head (assuming you sleep at least 6 hours, by dodging blue lights), compounding almost impossible to repair identity.
Recent lawsuit against META on addictive platform design tells the same pattern of lives where people crave exposure to brain fog activities and content than reading a few lines of technical or non-fiction elements that assist in creating a critical mind.
To the cherry on top, we place ourselves in comfortable cage (environments) and animals (people) who foster the interaction with unhealthy elements rather than bringing correctional sentiment.
This leads to something we can’t figure out in the next few years of our lives until then we are forced by the competition in growing economies to live average or below average life. Something you know you never deserved, but somehow, you ended up there.
“It is not in our control to have everything turn out exactly as we want, but it is in our control to control how we respond to what happens.”
– Epictetus
The need of the moment is: go against rotting thoughts which don’t add value for the next useful interactions. Anything that doesn’t add a bit of information into your thinking process, isn’t worth pursuing at all.
I have to tell myself every day, whenever i try to peek/touch those addicting apps, so would i to you. If you struggle for a focus block, start with removing all the distractions around you for 30 minutes.
Clear your surroundings and place yourself into a new place where the only purpose to think and do what’s ahead. Putting your phone in bag with flight mode for 1 hour can be a good start, then slowly implement the timer until you see your thoughts are value adding rather than distracting for useless social comparisons.
Sometimes we have to do, what is needed to be done to be an outlier by choice or be unlike the most. In stoic school of thoughts, the key to controlling your life is controlling your decisions and preserving your thoughts rather than getting stressed over external events.
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Take control of what you think about.”
The first step to getting out of the abyss of this monogamy is to go out and experience more things that fits in your scope of interests.
Anything that keeps you engaged with more curious mindset than others, do the repetitions to make it excellent. Being excellent in the smallest things is key to being present to achieving mastery.
That’s what it needs to call yourself lucky with true calling of your life, which is one of the possible ways to keep your mind away from brain rot activities and other mindless addicted exposures.
Go save your day and most importantly your brain. Start today!
