I did a MindUnwired Sunday yesterday. My phone was off from about 8am to 7.10pm. And here’s how I feel about it.
There’s an emerging suggestion in my mind, albeit embryonic right now, that people who keep their phones on all the time, and who react to notifications as if their reaction was as essential as breathing – are stupid people. Or at best they are non stupid people behaving stupidly. Because they have not yet realised how stupid they are being.
They have not yet realised how stupid it is to allow their moods and feelings to develop spontaneously from random sugary nonsense, as well as reacting to completely non-urgent requests and triggers as if they were.
Stupid people. And this, of course, includes me.
In summary, and I shouldn’t be as surprised as I am right now by this rhetorical question,
“Why do I CHOOSE to give my attention to things that are unambiguously unworthy of my attention, instead of CHOOSING to give my attention to things that unambiguously are worthy?”
Stupid.