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Sol Rashidi's avatar

Thank you Michael - and that's awesome! So glad you already applied the practice

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Sol Rashidi's avatar

Thats amazing

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Sol Rashidi's avatar

YES!!!! Which device or app do you use?

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Scott Marvel's avatar

I just now decided to do that!

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Michael Wahl's avatar

Fantastic post Sol, thank you!

Last month, I headed out for a run and realized I’d forgotten to charge my earbuds. No music, no podcasts. I thought the run would drag, but the quiet was exactly what I needed, some extra time/space to think instead of just consuming more content.

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Jason Averbook's avatar

Great piece Sol!

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Sol Rashidi's avatar

Thank you Jason!

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Bruno Costa's avatar

Hi Sol. New here and loved your article. I’m using an app called “one sec”. A bit challenging setting up, bout once it does when you open an app that you chose to “control” it stops you with a prompt. I selected the “it’s time to take a deep breath”, and after the animation it tells me how often I used the app and if I really want to open it. It’s quite interesting for me to have a reminder to stop sometimes.

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Sol Rashidi's avatar

Thank you Bruno for sharing, and welcome! That's a cool app, i'll check it out.

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DavidB74's avatar

I definitely use headphones as a crutch. Great idea to disconnect consciously!!

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Stoic Running's avatar

I love this post. Highly, highly recommend running without headphones. Productivity does not mean constant consumption. Living does not mean keeping up.

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Sam Hodge's avatar

All my best ideas come from my walks. I now have a device that I use to record my thoughts so the use of technology is unidirectional. Feeding from my mind as opposed to my mind.

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Sayani Ghosh's avatar

Completely agree with you.

I have been doing #3 for about 45 days now, it has been great.

For #1 my job requires me to context switch every 15 mins( probably true for a lot of us) and I have been trying to minimize that by choosing the most important thing to work on at any given time. I am still a WIP on this one for sure.

Not checking my phone 1 hour after waking up and going on walks without my phone has worked wonders for me.

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Ahmed Hussain's avatar

Decluttering our brains where it is not on auto-drive or takes the easy way out is essential now more than ever. With the advent of AI that permeates in every aspect of our work and life, we need to learn how to be intentional how we learn and when we use technology that amplifies our abilities. Otherwise, what makes us an human will be lost. Be unique, be creative, be a problem solver or become irrelevant.

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Mahesh Purama's avatar

Wonderful insights about being relevant Sol Rashidi. I agree to most of it but I would say letting yourself bored and consuming that boredom to innovate and making yourself relevant varies from person to person and it is a slow and heavy lifting process.

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