On December 20 2021 01:06 Gene(S)is wrote:
The problem with discord servers is that they usually end up getting spammed with picutres and such. The in-game channels are a lot cozier. But it will have to do for now so thanks anyways.
I think it gets back to the idea of things that take your attention. Like you can do so many things via discord and so many people with their own personal lifes. It just takes so much attention from you.
It is similar to anything you want to learn or studying on your computer. The computer has the advantage yo stimulate your braincells and eyes, which lets you noot get sleepy and makes gets you the dopamin kick. At the same time the computer has so much stuff clock, programms, youtube, articles via your browser, recommendations depending on your operating system settings take away your focus, natural just like your attention get focused on movement in movies, etc.
It really doesnt help, when you are trying to learn something or focus on something having thousands of things poping up every few seconds, be it insignifcant messages for your journey, quest, task,action,etc.
on discord, articles when opening a new tab on your browser or recommendations for videos that you may be interested in based on a algorithm that knows many things about you.
Same can be said about the stupid apm alert/display, probally the worst thing to actually improve your multitask, attention reduction per action, etc.
It literally taking away attention from you reminding you to step up, even with sound, if activated. That attention could actually be used to do usefull stuff and actually improve instead of spamming and get to the 95procent you want.
At the core though, i think it is also about the time you are wasting, even though technology in combination with luxury has freed a lot of us to explore other facettes of life and open our horizons. It also has enslaved us with never ending interesting things, that we cant get off nor do we really want.
In many ways computers and their other relatives have similar effects as other drugs exploring the never ending stories of life.
At the end of the day the best thing to achieve your task is to actually do the task and getting rid of any distraction, while you can. Otherwise you will be in a never ending loop of getting reward before achieving anything and needing it to not drown into sour, and as such survive.
EPT
