Week 2 went…
By fast. I got the feeling that my mind is now a lot more calmer then it was before, maybe I processed all my parked emotions and feelings, so now I am in that calm era of the streak. I genuinely am less on my phone then ever before. I do a lot more off-screen and enjoy gaming a lot more then I used to at the beginning of this streak.
The mind loves unexpected things
Yes, our brains are programmed to want a lot of unexpected things and are hardwired to learn new stuff everyday, that is the part of evolution a lot of people miss about ourselves. That we are in a constant search just for that. That is why doomscrolling is so addictive in the first place, the constant availability of unexpected information to process for our brain is just there on our palm to scroll through.
So now with that gone what is replacing it? Well, my friend, I’ve replaced it with reading books, reciting the quran, walking, trying to figure out how nixOS works, walking, riding a motorbike… I think you get it by now that my mind just went looking for thing to do instead of just standing still and staring at the ceiling.
The focus is healing
The best thing about it is that I went fully into the activities, I would spend more time on the task and actually get into a flow as well. Unfinished work felt like it needed some more completion and I was able to cancel things that did not matter more easily. I can definitely say this has had a very positive result on my production so far.
Overall
2 weeks is a nice point to see yourself just changing already, I could stop now and go back… but I really enjoy this a lot. Doomscrolling should be seen as a serious addiction and tech companies need to stop hijacking our time with their algorithms.
To add up to this experiment or new way of living moving forward from here on, why am I not using an app timer? Personally it never really worked for me, I keep disabling it and there is no in between solution? The problem is I keep coming back to talk to my friends on DM’s and then when you press back you’re just sucked into the doomscroll spree… You can call it a discipline issue but for me it was more of a stop showing up to the tug of war situation all together, I just stop showing up to the tug.
