I wasn't thinking about distractions or being able to concentrate when I asked this. I meant something that exists over longer time, like years. Like, the knowl

I wasn't thinking about distractions or being able to concentrate when I asked this. I meant something that exists over longer time, like years. Like, the knowledge that there are so many other things makes it harder to appreciate and care about each of them. There seems to be a similar effect when living in a place where there is a high density of people. They start looking like background noise. But if there are not many people around, you might talk to almost everyone you see. Trying to answer my own question, one thing that I think has helped me to more appreciate some things, is to have rules and try to enforce them. It could be to use an unusual operating system, or disconnect my computer from the internet, or deciding that there are some types of things or features that may not be used. That has the effect that most things I find online don't pass the rules or don't work for me and therefore I have to care more about the things that do. So I was wondering how we can achieve this at a bigger scale, unless everyone else want to limit themselves as I do. It's quite fun actually but I don't think people care enough to do this.