This one resonated today.
— Gina Gotthilf (@ginag) November 9, 2020
"A lot of problems happen because of your internal state.
When you’re calm, happy, and fulfilled you don’t pick fights, create drama, or keep score."
— @ShaneAParrish
But it’s hard to be calm when we’re in a state of mindless scrolling or when we’re interrupted by notifications. Especially news and social notifications.
If you can watch yourself as you interact with your phone, iPad, TV – watch even for a few seconds – you’ll very likely find yourself physically tense and mentally anxious.
And you’ll see how far from calm we are most of our day.
How much of the unhelpful behaviours that the tweet mentions – casual combativeness, compulsive competitiveness – are simply because we can’t help ourselves use our phones?
It sounds crazy. And it is.