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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