How often do you begin your day? How do you spend it and end it with your hands almost and always groping around for your devices?
Just as their creators envisioned a world where devices help us make the most of our day by taking away the things that consume most of our time, we end up being enslaved by them.
If you are a grown-up with real-life responsibilities, perhaps your character might be in question if you’ve wasted all your hours playing games. You might even have neglected everything else that makes you function as a responsible adult.
If time is our most precious resource, where should we be putting all our efforts aside from our unending lit screens?
From The Time Hack Everyone Should Know:
We all know that time is our most precious resource: It’s the one thing money cannot buy. And with smartphones in everyone’s pocket these days, we’ve never been more able to track how we use every minute of it. By pressing a button or downloading an app, we can track the time we spend exercising, sleeping, and even scrolling through our social media feeds.
Have we made ourselves lose our ability to say no to wasting our time in front of our screens? How do we even waste our time, you ask? We might have by doing so many things with our devices but achieving nothing in particular.
From The Time Hack Everyone Should Know:
When we humans choose TV or social media over other activities, we are making a “social compromise.” To be clear: we’re not entirely to blame for these choices. Tech and screens have been designed to captivate us. As one recent study suggested, we might get addicted to social media because of a tricky feature of our anatomy — a feel-good dopamine feedback loop stimulated by the way these platforms work, and how they reward our engagement and participation. It’s like we’re all sitting at a slot machine that pays out randomly, and we can never anticipate when we are going to hit big.
Right, we’re not to blame totally. But who’s responsible?
From The Time Hack Everyone Should Know:
But research also shows that by taking steps to make sure our social compromises are our own choices — not based on the way technology makes us feel — we can employ the best time hack of all. It’s called social economizing, and it means we make active decisions about how we spend our time, and we then save and invest our time where we want.
That’s good news then! What you end up doing starts as small decisions accumulated over time before becoming a habit.
So if you really want to make time for so many things outside of your devices, then always remember that you have a choice.
jessa 