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Focus on yourself and what you can improve about your own life and the lives of others close to you. If you focus on things outside your sphere of influence (i
by prirun 5y ago
Focus on yourself and what you can improve about your own life and the lives of others close to you. If you focus on things outside your sphere of influence (ie, you can't fix it), you will only upset yourself and live in a state of unhappiness.
- morpheos137 5y agoThis is true. I find I have wasted a huge amount of my time with technology for very little real reward. It is kind of like a monkey in a cage pushing a lever to get a shot of some dopamine releasing substance. I am seriously considering disconnecting the internet at home. The thought seems unfathomable on the one hand on the other how did we as a society let this anti-social, time wasting vampiric force take over so much of our lives. It truly is like the frog boiled slowly. It is true valuable and useful information can be found online, but at the end of the day so much of it just does not matter to our daily life and even good information or positive social engagement can serve as a distraction from better, more real world uses of time, like going for a hike or building a house or falling in love or planting a garden or taking care of elders.
- jyounker 5y agoGet involved in local politics so you can expand the sphere of people that you can influence.
- jart 5y agoThat's an even better way to become disillusioned. Knowing how local government administrators operate, I'd be reluctant to call tech companies that give everything away for free a bunch of monsters like OP.