I’ve said before that switching to headphones gives five percent of the benefits (attention, awareness, mindfulness) that going fully phoneless would give for one percent of the effort which is a 400% savings that I’ve applied in my own life and I more often than not (but not always) had headphones with a podcast, an audio book, or music.
What I mean by the one percent, five percent thing is this: I feel that switching from screen to headphones is only 1% more boring, but it made me 5% closer to becoming aware and enlightened. I.e. I was disproportionally rewarded and felt like that was a fivefold win.
But.
I see a lot of people with both. 🤦🏻♀️ Both headphones on and staring into glowyglowy.
So that’s 195% of the badness of phones. Almost twice as bad. Good job. 😭 Might as well strap on a VR helmet, oven mitts, and a ballgag at that point.
Enh, I realize I’m being judgy rather than constructive or solution oriented. Just so sick of glowyglowy.