The final week of the second month of a Life of Focus centred on the fact that connection requires effort and the easiest but perhaps forgotten way maintaining a rich social life is to join something. As the second challenge drew to a close we explore what to do after the declutter and tips for maintaining moderation going forward.
Cal began the week highlighting the point the connection requires effort. There are two components necessary for deep social interaction: an analog component (e.g. in person) and some notion of effort or sacrifice. This in is direct contrast with the characteristics of online communication.
The next lesson built on the first and concerned an almost forgotten tactic for maintaining and enhanced a rich social life. That is to join something. Some of the benefits of joining something explored were; a good way to enforce regular analog social interactions, build connections in your community and exposing you to a diverse group of people.
The rest of the week pertained to what to do after your digital declutter and tactics for maintaining moderation in digital devices.
This week marked the end of my digital declutter and for the most part it was a success. I have deleted instagram and facebook from my phone and didn’t even look on them on my laptop. Unfortunately I kind slipped with twitter, and redownloaded it on my phone on the last week. In the past instagram has been a real black hole for me so progress on that makes me proud.
I will definitely be not downloading those apps going forward, however I will start looking at them on my laptop again (ideal for instagram as it is hard to mindlessly scroll through stories).
My completed 11 hours of deep work this week. I feel I am slipping back into old working habits and need to reassess them again as I start the last month.
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