Faux living

# Chapter 168

“ . . . the average amount of time that people spent on any single event before being interrupted or before switching was about three minutes. Actually, three minutes and five seconds, on average.” - The Gallup

As you can see, I am continuing my recent theme of our love affair with interruptions and distractions. The above quote from Gallup news was more data confirming that we are committed only to making no commitments, we are in infinite browsing mode all the time. We are addicted to distractions and interruptions. We set ourselves up for this precise mode of faux living all the time and on purpose. It seems that we don’t want to have the slightest chance that we will be held to any responsibility or production or that there will be any chance of expecting us to do some deep work or changing the world.

This equals the shallowest life choice possible and holds us to nothing. It makes no commitments and bears no responsibility and cannot reasonably have any expectations placed upon such a life. I know some of you reading this think that “these are all external inputs coming from others and elsewhere” and that argument will gain no traction here. You still can control much of those inputs or least contain when and where they can disrupt the flow of work that needs to happen. Heck even your phone gives you the option of “focus mode” which will block out all notifications for however long you command it to do so. Of course nothing can prevent you from picking up your phone and willingly embracing it except you.