I got frustrated with the distractions on my phone and deleted every app that pulls at my attention. I ditched Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, news apps, Gmail... I even disabled Safari. I thought I'd try the experiment for maybe an hour. Over 12 years later, I'm still doing it, and while it has not solved all my attention problems, it helps a little every day.
For me it wasn’t about distractions, but negativity. The world is a hard enough place, I don’t want to hear it daily by my acquaintances.
To focus for a certain period of time, uninstalling apps is not enough.. I came across different brain drain studies which conclude that the mere presence of a smartphone reduces the available cognitive capacity.
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I am not as far along as you but definitely deleted Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Slack and work email. It has worked wonders My biggest distraction are text messages :)
I struggle deleting LinkedIn 🥹🥹🥹
Love it Jake Knapp. Another thing I've done, is I have 1 touch gray scale enabled. Without the bright vibrant colors, the phone becomes less addicting. I enable them when I need it
Great post! My phone doesn't really distract me at all. It's the so easy ability to open a tab and be there on my laptop. How do you avoid that?
You make time ;)
Make time and deep work were two books that made a transformational impact on managing time and doing deep work :)
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