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Why Am I So Burnt Out?

Started by sbspalding · 1 year ago

Our culture has excised from it’s rulebook the idea of “downtime.” Push email, ubiquitous mobile phones, always on connections and cheap laptops have made it so easy for us to stay connected all the time, that it seems almost irresponsible not to. Being effective at what you do is realizing that you have to be […]




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  • Cool. The above blog titles read like a list of web 2 ailments. I have huge amounts of info. favourited & bookmarked. Will I ever get round to re-reading it all ? Or is it like junk stored in the attic, never looked at again until thrown out ? You sometimes cannot think because your head is cluttered with info. How much info do we really need ? How many 0000s of books, courses & features are out there on fiction writing, yet Shakespeare wrote his lot before they were thought of. He still coped. It isn't always the info that counts, it's what your head does with it.
  • Very true. I feel a disconnect with the world if I don't have my cell phone with me. Even if I am at work in front of my computer w/ high speed internet and a voip phone to my side.

    How technology has put a hold on us, scary!
  • I will give this a try but it does seem rather difficult.

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