Too much stuff around you means too much to think about, too much to do, leading to chaos.Just like a to-do list takes care of our mental chaos, we should clean and declutter stuff around us, so that we are able to think better.

Declutter and Simplify

Keeping life organized often feels like a juggling act. Just as swiftly as you move to catch one ball - say finances, family commitments, or fun with friends - the next one is hurtling towards you.

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<ul><li>Calls and internet access (obviously)</li><li>Navigation apps</li><li>Short form reading oriented apps for productivity boost and learning something new on the toilet or break time (Deepstash 🖤)</li><li>Pomodoro timer app to use during work hours</li><li>Tasks list for big goals of the day</li><li>Some utility apps such as Optimizer and flashlight</li><li>Mono tone solid color background to remind yourself that this phone is not fun</li><li> </li></ul>

What to keep  

They help with your productivity and work flow: <ol><li>Forest App for pomodoro timer</li><li>News app from Microsoft and Google</li><li>Medium, of course</li><li>Twitter for guilty pleasure</li><li>Deepstash for learning new ideas and thoughts 🖤</li></ol>

Apps & Time

The phones are not the problem. We are. We can turn these time-wasting machines into instruments of focus.

Focus Phone for Productivity & Mindfulness

<ul><li>No Messaging app</li><li>No Media and streaming apps such as Netflix, Twitch… (no apps that generate audio and videos)</li><li>No Games except if it helps you learn something</li><li>No widgets</li><li>Limitation on Social Media app (I failed and still have twitter for catching up news)</li><li>Minimal UI to limit “phubbing” and avoid opening apps that you are not planning to</li><li>Get rid of android bloatwares somehow (hiding it or uninstalling it)</li><li>NO work related apps in there</li><li>Don’t use this mobile number to receive junk SMS (promo, offers, coupons)</li><li> Don’t subscribe any SaaS services to reduce notifications</li></ul>

What not to keep 

Our phones may not be the problem for our lack of concentration, but the way we use them by overcrowding them with distracting apps & notifications.

I have an old android phone but a decent performance lying around. About a week ago, I got an idea of utilizing it as a 2nd phone and thinking of a purpose for it. My primary work and personal-ish…

He developed a formula for calming himself and his pupils down in the face of irritating people.
He said to never see people as evil; just try to identify what is driving a person to behave in negative ways. It is a calming thought to imagine that they’re suffering in a way we can’t see. Being mature means learning to imagine this area of pain even if you don't have enough evidence about it.

Emile-Auguste Chartier's formula for calming down

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Meaning in life is the degree to which people feel that connectiveness to themselves, to each other, and to the world that alleviates or ameliorates that anxiety, absurdity, and alienation, so that life is worth it to them…Do you have those kinds of connections enough that you don’t find life overwhelmingly absurd and futile, that you don’t feel yourself overwhelmingly alienated, that you’re not overwhelmingly beset by both psychological or existential anxiety?

Meaning has to be understood as a relationship rather than an absolute state. We feel meaning when we are connecting us to ourselves, to others, and to the world. His perspective is deeply influenced by Daoist & Buddhist philosophies. We face a meaning crisis when  feel anxious & alienated because we’re stuck in our head, lose the sense of our embodiment. When we feel weak connection with reality (the Dao).

Vervaeke's Definition of Meaning

The modern world has gone wrong with its construal of rationality as the logical manipulation of statements. Rationality is not the only form of knowing. "We’ve reduced our understanding of what knowing is to merely the propositional level, and we’ve left out the participatory. We’ve left out all the non-propositional aspects."The rituals, our sensations, intuitions, our insights, the physical activities and so are representing truth and play a key part in creating meaning. It's why Vervaeke thinks the Zen masters have a more complete epistemological framework than the best Western scientists.

Participatory Knowing

Vervaeke tries to explain meaning to Lex. 

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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis & the Search for Wisdom

<ol><li>Start very small. </li><li>Do only one change at a time</li><li>Be present and enjoy the activity (don't focus on results).</li><li>Be grateful for every step you take. </li></ol>

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John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis & the Search for Wisdom

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