What is NoSurf?
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- Author: nosurf.net
- Full Title: What is NoSurf?
- Category:articles
- Summary: NoSurf is a community and movement that focuses on self-regulating internet usage and becoming more productive. It aims to shift the perception of the internet as a source of mindless distraction to a tool for improving our lives. The movement emphasizes the importance of self-control and offers a supportive space for individuals to share practical information and experiences. The document provides insights and tips for transforming internet usage, including installing blocking software, seeking community support, reading success stories, engaging in fulfilling activities, setting specific goals, gaining leverage on oneself, and adopting a growth mindset. It also suggests addressing unmet needs and offers resources for professional help if needed.
- URL: https://nosurf.net/about/
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- For some, NoSurf is a movement for netizens to self-regulate compulsive internet usage. For others, NoSurf is a community of people who are focused on becoming more productive and wasting less time mindlessly surfing the internet. (View Highlight)
- We believe that the internet should be used as a tool to better our lives rather than serve as a source of mindless distraction and shallow entertainment. (View Highlight)
- healthy, mindful, and purposeful internet use, so that our devices serve us – and not the other way around. (View Highlight)
- In the “Willpower Instinct,” Kelly McGonigal, PhD writes about the fact that willpower has been proven in scientific experiments to be a finite resource. We can only exercise so much of it at any given time and the amount is drastically impacted by common everyday occurrences like tiredness, hunger, and stress. (View Highlight)
- If you have a goal to cut back on social media or overall screen time, don’t rely on pure willpower alone. Make sure to leverage and take full advantage of software that’s been engineered to solve this problem. (View Highlight)
- “If I stop mindlessly browsing the internet, what am I going to do all day?” It’s a question that illustrates just how dependent we’ve grown on the devices around us: we have trouble fathoming what life would be like with out them (View Highlight)
- There’s a whole world out there on the other side of our screens. (View Highlight)
- An important thing to get clear on at the very beginning of your journey is why you’re embarking on the journey in the first place. Why are you doing this? Do you want to be more productive? Do you want to be able to focus and get better grades? Do you want a greater sense of mental clarity? Do you want to have more time for your hobbies and passions? Do you want to get in shape? Spend more time with your significant other/kids/family? (View Highlight)
- Desire and knowing your why are powerful forces and will help you tremendously as you encounter challenges and setbacks during your journey. Nietzsche touches on the essence of the idea: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” (View Highlight)
- Human beings are driven by two primary forces: the desire to gain pleasure and to avoid pain. Any time you act or fail to act, it is because on some level, whether consciously or subconsciously, you believed you would gain pleasure, would avoid pain, or both. (View Highlight)
- In “Psycho-Cybernetics,” Dr. Maxwell Maltz writes “Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.” (View Highlight)
- Sit down in a chair, close your eyes, and fast forward 5 years using your imagination. What does your life look like if you don’t change today? What opportunities do you miss out on? How will you feel knowing you wasted so much time? Knowing you wasted your potential? What will you look like? What will you feel like? (View Highlight)
- You succeed not when you want to change, but when you must change, and not when you must change “sometime” but… when you must change now. (View Highlight)
- “Whether you think you can or you can’t, either way you are right.” – Henry Ford. (View Highlight)
- “It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist. A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment… We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.” – Dr. Maxwell Maltz (View Highlight)
- Unhealthy internet habits might be a sign that you’re using the internet in an unsuccessful attempt to fill needs that are supposed to be met in the real world. Maybe your life lacks novelty and rich diversity of experience so you turn to the internet to get it digitally. This is actually a bit of a catch-22 because you turn to the internet as a result of your life being boring, but then your life stays boring because you’re always on the internet. Or maybe deep down you crave love and intimacy and are trying to meet that need by watching an ever-increasing amount of pornography. (View Highlight)