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Detoxing
have felt my attention span decay over the past few years. going to try giving up social media for lent. need to check email for work. but that's it. wife thinks i won't last a week. we'll see.
if i come back early feel free to give me ****.
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02-18-2026, 06:33 PM
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Best of luck. I should do the same.
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02-18-2026, 07:06 PM
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Not sure how SM saturation breeds short attention span. I guess it depends on what you will allow to indulge in. 80% of it I won't put up with so I just move forward. It's been said many times that PPOT is pretty high quality compared to a lot of time wasting crap. You can waste time here too, but at least you're wasting time at a better level.
Also I find that if you have a hobby, joining a forum can be beneficial (if you stay out of their OT forum). I have run through at least a dozen as I pursue this and that. Wait, that's a short attention span. 
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02-18-2026, 07:18 PM
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Short form video trains you to have no attention span. After 30s you are looking at something different. A few months of that and you start to think it’s the norm and start losing focus on anything longer.
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02-18-2026, 07:33 PM
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Good luck. This will be a challenge.
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02-18-2026, 08:40 PM
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I have detox'd thousands of times ... "cold turkey". It's easy peasy ..... Good Luck! See ya soon
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02-19-2026, 02:05 AM
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This is good.
6 months ago I took my Smart Phone to the Ball Peen Hammer. I use a simple flip phone now. I kept going down rabbit holes and a lot of doom scrolling. My wife and I share a home computer. She is on it a lot because of her business. That keeps my time limited. E-Mail, some news sites. I read the WSJ and NYT's paper in the morning. Feel better now.
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