ie. Right now i am learning to weld off an old Canandian body work man on the other side of the world, like taking an apprentiship with a master in the comfort of my home, on demand. Ive never enabled notifications on my phone, its always on silent, ive never installed a FAANG app on it, i use my phone as a tool. Im getting a education that would cost me time x dollars x effort if i was enroll in a traditional technical collage.
Just because your have found yourself searching for meaning in your life through your phone distractions, doesnt mean its a bad thing. Its your body telling you that while you may be making some money right now, your actually not persuring a dream that is satisfying your inner yerning for a meaningful existance.
I cant watch a movie at length anymore, but i can keep my phone next to me for an entire day and actually forget its there enough to go looking for it in other place when i actually need it. I love my work though, coding is a hobby turned passion turned career turned never worked a day in my life after quitting k-mart at 20 to live it. Yet im divorced from a doctor who spent every hour of every day she was not working, distracting herself with her phone, gaming, ignoring the world, obsessed with stalking people on facebook, getting despressed with her life, trying to bandaid it with InstaSatisfation, because of all the trauma she has suffered yet never dealt with. On the outside, she is a success of a women, and will save your life in the ER; but in every other situation, she is a complete mess on the verge of suicide due to unresolved PTSD.
Your education, or your job does not define you. You are more then your successes (and your failures) and the WWW has allowed people to see this at scale more then anytime in history. its reshaping our society, and what we grew up with, what our parents valued, is slowly fading away for a new modern set of skills. Those modern skills dont resolve around books, or attention. But the ability to wade through through loads of crap to find the gems that add value to your existance. Not distract from it.
Just because your have found yourself searching for meaning in your life through your phone distractions, doesnt mean its a bad thing. Its your body telling you that while you may be making some money right now, your actually not persuring a dream that is satisfying your inner yerning for a meaningful existance.
I cant watch a movie at length anymore, but i can keep my phone next to me for an entire day and actually forget its there enough to go looking for it in other place when i actually need it. I love my work though, coding is a hobby turned passion turned career turned never worked a day in my life after quitting k-mart at 20 to live it. Yet im divorced from a doctor who spent every hour of every day she was not working, distracting herself with her phone, gaming, ignoring the world, obsessed with stalking people on facebook, getting despressed with her life, trying to bandaid it with InstaSatisfation, because of all the trauma she has suffered yet never dealt with. On the outside, she is a success of a women, and will save your life in the ER; but in every other situation, she is a complete mess on the verge of suicide due to unresolved PTSD.
Your education, or your job does not define you. You are more then your successes (and your failures) and the WWW has allowed people to see this at scale more then anytime in history. its reshaping our society, and what we grew up with, what our parents valued, is slowly fading away for a new modern set of skills. Those modern skills dont resolve around books, or attention. But the ability to wade through through loads of crap to find the gems that add value to your existance. Not distract from it.