Re:Your time is the furthest thing from free (reimagining th...
by Apocryphon on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:12PM
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FOMO is another way in which shirt-term impulses towards novelty or comfort short-circuit more long-term aspirations that are more cerebral and abstract.
Unfortunately, this emotional appel for one to seek self-actualization doesn’t do anything to halt short-term thinking. It’s just more preaching without concrete means to achieve it.
I offer two modest solutions towards the goal advocated by this link:
1. Productive procrastination: swapping the most junk food of short-term leisure with pursuits that are still fun but slightly more constructive towards meeting one’s long-term goals.
2. Progressive overload. Rather than this all or nothing anti-FOMO approach advocated by this link of mindset transformation (all of your time spent on short-term gratification is to be regarded as wasting your life; you WILL regret it one day), just chip away at the time wasted a little bit, each day. Sub in more productive leisures as in 1). Grow at your own pace. Don’t guilt yourself about it.
Self-help tends to be more successful when it emphasizes with the reader and comes up with actionable steps, not ask them to suddenly change their worldview.
Unfortunately, this emotional appel for one to seek self-actualization doesn’t do anything to halt short-term thinking. It’s just more preaching without concrete means to achieve it.
I offer two modest solutions towards the goal advocated by this link:
1. Productive procrastination: swapping the most junk food of short-term leisure with pursuits that are still fun but slightly more constructive towards meeting one’s long-term goals.
2. Progressive overload. Rather than this all or nothing anti-FOMO approach advocated by this link of mindset transformation (all of your time spent on short-term gratification is to be regarded as wasting your life; you WILL regret it one day), just chip away at the time wasted a little bit, each day. Sub in more productive leisures as in 1). Grow at your own pace. Don’t guilt yourself about it.
Self-help tends to be more successful when it emphasizes with the reader and comes up with actionable steps, not ask them to suddenly change their worldview.