One of the very important skills to learn in this era is purposeful curation of one's own attention.
If you don't keep the avenues of interruptions into your daily life in check they will overwhelm you.
Everyone everywhere wants you to look at their thing or listen to their thing every time they have a new thing. You have to aggressively pare down what gets through and when.
Only the absolute most important things should be able to interrupt you. You can probably count those things on one hand.
Calls from spammers are not on this list.
Email newsletters are not on this list.
Notifications of new comments on a post are not on this list.
New articles on a publication you read are not on this list.
At the end of the day, everyone's list is different.
Turn off notifications on most things. Unsubscribe from most things. Push notifications off for most things. Persistent notification dots and numbers off. Sounds off.
Take your attention back. It doesn't always come naturally to learn this skill but in 2023 deciding if, when, and where you will pay attention to something is paramount.
If you don't keep the avenues of interruptions into your daily life in check they will overwhelm you.
Everyone everywhere wants you to look at their thing or listen to their thing every time they have a new thing. You have to aggressively pare down what gets through and when.
Only the absolute most important things should be able to interrupt you. You can probably count those things on one hand.
Calls from spammers are not on this list.
Email newsletters are not on this list.
Notifications of new comments on a post are not on this list.
New articles on a publication you read are not on this list.
At the end of the day, everyone's list is different.
Turn off notifications on most things. Unsubscribe from most things. Push notifications off for most things. Persistent notification dots and numbers off. Sounds off.
Take your attention back. It doesn't always come naturally to learn this skill but in 2023 deciding if, when, and where you will pay attention to something is paramount.