memes
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One unforseen consequence of cutting off the internet is that you experience a paradigm shift in how you spend your time. People like to follow the path of least resistance, so if a luxury like reddit meme pages or ASMR is all of a sudden harder to get a hold of, the most sustainable reaction would be to lessen or eliminate the importance of these luxuries in your life. Case in point - I’ve found myself feeling increasingly stupider doing this kind of “off the cuff” rummaging of feeds and pages, and increasingly sticking to my laundry list of music to download and emails to send. Telling someone to have fun is the best way to ensure they won’t have fun.
[...]off the grid (no internet)
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Why did I want to go off the grid?
Deep inside, there was this inclination that suffering through something no one else would dare do would in itself make me better than those around me. When friends and family would give me strange looks, that would only fuel my desire to follow the project through. On a more practical note, I felt that I would be able to unlock my true potential by ridding myself of the biggest distractor in my life.
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