<aside> 🐘 A collection of the 3 Pieces of Content I've found the most valuable this week on the internet, with some reflections, key lessons, and why they can add value to our lives. Plus, one thought-provoking quote. I do this because I believe in intentionally choosing the content we consume, especially on the internet, in an era in which the amount of content we expose ourselves to can consume us, if we are not mindful enough.
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"Don't let the numbers fool you. There is something in life that you just can't measure."
We might not even realise it, but the time we spend on social media can compound very quickly. The effect of the use we make of social media on our mental health is a rather established topic by now, and it's been talked about for many years over the past decade.
In this video, Nathaniel Drew draws some key lessons and gives thoughts on how it felt like for him to quit social media for a month, an experiment which has seen many people involved over the past couple of years, with numerous videos that can be found on Youtube.
Here are some reasons for which this video is worth a watch: the aesthetically pleasing editing, footage, and voiceover makes the whole narration outstanding; Nathaniel provides some well-organised, deep lessons and considerations he has drawn from the experience.
Now, this may sound overly dramatic (it's just social media, c'mon), but many of us are not fully aware and in control of the time we spend on social media platforms, and this video is a perfect way to reflect and meditate on the subject of social media use and how it affects our lives at a deep, unconscious level.
This Ted Talk by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has got some relation to the video above by Nathaniel Drew, in that it focuses on the inner issue of craving attention, which is especially noticeable in social media platforms.
Gordon-Levitt argues that craving attention hinders creativity, as it shifts our focus on making work to please other people, instead of let creativity express freely in our work. Although this may sound quite obvious, it's not really that easy of a principle to stick to. This talk may do the job of bring an increasing sense of awareness on the topic of the free creative process.
"I try not to see other creative people as my competitors. I try to find collaborators."
If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you are never going to be creatively fulfilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VTsIju1dLI&feature=share
If you are into all things productivity and time management, the podcast 'Deep Questions' by Cal Newport may be a valuable resource where to learn new techniques and systems which help you be more intentionally productive.
This is one of the this week's episodes.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FMV88pQAS8avV3QrTVJoR?si=1rETghwXRt2qDuklH9wOkg
But when he is most fully man, when he is his complete organism, when awareness experience, that peculiarly human attribute, is most fully operating, then he is to be trusted, then his behavior is constructive. It is not always conventional. It will not always be conforming. It will be individualized. But it will also be socialized.
— from 'On Becoming a Person' | Carl Rogers