26d • General discussion
Leave your phone outside your bedroom!!
So after listening to Cameron’s recent podcast, I realised the one thing I hadn’t implemented was leaving the phone outside my bedroom. I’ve noticed I’ve been scrolling too much, so though this may help cut back. I didn’t expect much from it honestly, just trying anything to fix sleep that has been broken for a while.
The first thing I noticed wasn’t the sleep (still working on that). It was actually the quality of thought that appeared in the spaces where the scrolling used to be. I started waking up and reaching for my books instead of a feed. I also started going for walks without headphones. I laid in the grass for an hour in the sun with my eyes closed just listening to music and nature. Somehow, so many ideas I hadn’t been able to access started surfacing — creative ideas, clarity on decisions I’d been circling for weeks, memories I hadn’t thought about in years, even parts of myself I thought didn’t exist (my creative side as a software engineer). I’ve been reading more in the last two weeks than I have in months, genuinely absorbing it rather than skimming. I had a conversation with my grandfather about a James Baldwin novel we both read at the same age, decades apart. I’ve also written poems and posted them to my substack (https://substack.com/@nilek3 - shameless plug I hope that’s okay).
I figured out what I actually want my life to look like, with a concrete vision. None of that felt available to me when the phone was the first thing I reached in the morning or whenever I was bored.
Leave your phone outside your bedroom!!
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Leave your phone outside your bedroom!!
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