Most Emergencies Aren’t
Metadata
- Author: Joshua Fields Millburn
- Full Title: Most Emergencies Aren’t
- Category:articles
- Published Date: 2015-08-03
- Summary: I got rid of my smartphone for a few months and I learned a lot about myself…
- URL: https://www.theminimalists.com/emergencies/
Highlights
- Impulsivity. The opposite of intention is impulse, which accurately described my former relationship with my smartphone: I acted primarily on impulse, always reacting to what my phone instructed me to do. I wasn’t using the phone—it was using me. (View Highlight)
- Note: Something about this reminds me that we can control our tools (gadgets such as phones, tablets, etc). But we often forget that we could because they’re too sophisticated. They function on systems smarter than us, and so we often don’t realize that we’re the ones being controlled, instead of the other way around. How do we solve this? By having values. By knowing the direction we should go toward, we would know how to use our tools.