Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort – and boredom, says psychologist Carly Dober
This headline is summarizing something that I’ve come to realize over the last year. Discomfort is ok. It helps us grow. In my case: comfort leads to complacency, and complacency leads to stagnation. It’s a good idea in my case to reject just a bit of modernity.
That also can lead to different conclusions. It’s like half a year of me using MacOS instead of Linux or FreeBSD with FVWM and everything set up how I want it. It’s inconvenient and not customizable, but at the same time I’ve had a bit of progress with hobby projects.
This headline is summarizing something that I’ve come to realize over the last year. Discomfort is ok. It helps us grow. In my case: comfort leads to complacency, and complacency leads to stagnation. It’s a good idea in my case to reject just a bit of modernity.
That also can lead to different conclusions. It’s like half a year of me using MacOS instead of Linux or FreeBSD with FVWM and everything set up how I want it. It’s inconvenient and not customizable, but at the same time I’ve had a bit of progress with hobby projects.