Disconnecting Distraction
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Saved by 19 people (-2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-05-18
- Ambioct on 2009-11-11 - Tags Procrastination
- Vulkankaninchen on 2009-03-14 - Tags distraction
- Neocryptek on 2009-01-07 - Tags motivation
- Hilcoblok on 2008-10-13 - Tags procrastination , munandu
- Iphigenie on 2008-10-06 - Tags no_tag
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After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn't realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I'd wake up, get a cup of tea and check the news, then check email, then check the news again, then answer a few emails, then suddenly notice it was almost lunchtime and I hadn't gotten any real work done. And this started to happen more and more often.
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The key seems to be visibility. The biggest ingredient in most bad habits is denial. So you have to make it so that you can't merely slip into doing the thing you're trying to avoid. It has to set off alarms.
Maybe in the long term the right answer for dealing with Internet distractions will be software that watches and controls them. But in the meantime I've found a more drastic solution that definitely works: to set up a separate computer for using the Internet.
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