How to Design a Lifestyle That Eliminates Distraction and Enables Hyper-Focus
“Network tools [like social media, email, the Internet] are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.” -Cal Newport
The world wants you to be distracted.
There’s a fortune to be made off your distraction. Television, streaming services, movie studios, social media, apps, video games, smart phone companies, and countless other billion-dollar industries have but one goal:
To make you watch their stuff.
It doesn’t matter if this content is actually bad for you. Doesn’t matter if this graphic media makes you feel sick, depressed, sad, angry, or afraid. It doesn’t matter if it’s addictive or hurtful. Lower ratings only means failure for them.
Best-selling author James Altucher once quipped, “Ninety-nine percent of TV is about scandal, murder, and cheating.” He’s right. And garbage in, garbage out; if you flood your mind with this toxic content, you’ll begin to absorb it and see it in your life. Again, this doesn’t matter to the companies selling the stuff — what matters is the money.
Distractions are the enemy. Distractions destroy creativity, momentum, and focus. They seek to dominate you, much like the…
