Sunday, 8 September 2019

Are you game for the 'Digital Detox' Challenge???

Dear friends,

We are so mightily enthused by the response we’ve got from our friends, students – past & present, - and from all our well wishers for our past digital detox challenges that we have had thus far!!!


Now, spurred and enthused much-o-much by the success of our past digital detox campaigns, yet again we are planning on a digital detox time, in which period we would be practising digital minimalism of the highest order, that Cal Newport suggests!

As such, those of you who would like to join us all on our little ‘digital detox’ bandwagon are gladly welcome to do so! Just drop me an email, and then I would respond with a one-page guideline on how to make your digital detox time a great success, connecting with real life friends, walking amidst real nature, doing some real angling, visiting real libraries, reading real books and a host of like-fashioned spirited ventures!

9 September 2019 sharp at 12 midnight we start and end on 9 October 2019 the same time!
Mail me at rufusonline@gmail.com if you’re really game for a digital detox!

Oh Come! There's more to life than the ones we find on our digital screens! There's more reality to games and playing than the 'virtual reality' we enjoy on our gaming consoles! There's more to nature than the animated fish we relish watching on our digital screens, fishes that 'seem' to wiggle their tails and move around on the screen in such measured sanity!

And yes! let's give the barons and the tycoons of social media a run for their money at least for a month's time! ;-)

Well, you might want to read more on our vibrant detox guru Cal Newport on our past post HERE!

But for some excerpts here - 

To Cal Newport, - and I quote -

This process of the digital declutter requires you to step away from optional online activities for thirty days. During this period, you’ll wean yourself from the cycles of addiction that many digital tools can instill, and begin to rediscover the analog activities that provide you deeper satisfaction. 

You’ll take walks, talk to friends in person, engage your community, read books, and stare at the clouds. Most importantly, the declutter gives you the space to refine your understanding of the things you value most. At the end of the thirty days, you will then add back a small number of carefully chosen online activities that you believe will provide massive benefit to these things you value. 

Going forward, you’ll do your best to make these intentional activities the core of your online life—leaving behind most of the other distracting behaviors that used to fragment your time and snare your attention. The declutter acts as a jarring reset: you come into the process a frazzled maximalist and leave an intentional minimalist.

Just giving y’all some delightful, mindful quotes from this lovely read!

The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.

You can enjoy solitude in a crowded coffee shop, on a subway car, or, as President Lincoln discovered at his cottage, while sharing your lawn with two companies of Union soldiers, so long as your mind is left to grapple only with its own thoughts. On the other hand, solitude can be banished in even the quietest setting if you allow input from other minds to intrude. Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to be.

Now, after reading Cal, if you're really really really convinced of the importance of  a digital detox time, do mail me! Else pls don't! ;-)

Best,
Rufus

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