Rule #5: Eliminate unnecessary screen time
Achieving Optimal Agency is an act of creation.
Our goal to master Health, Wealth, and Time is about building ourselves in order to build the collective.
Most time spent in front of screens is antithetical to this aim of creation; it is consumption. We watch video feeds, absorb partisan ideas, fuel emotional reactions, and engage our senses without ever engaging our minds, seldom meaningfully interacting with what we see. This is true of the majority of time spent watching television, scrolling social media, and even time spent in most corporate meetings.
While there are obvious negative health effects of screen time (such as the sleep-interfering effect of blue light, the self-esteem robbing effects of Instagram, and the negative emotions engendered by news consumption), our primary reason for eliminating screen time is simply one of opportunity cost — if we are engaging with our devices in consumption, we are failing in our mandate: to learn, to create, and to Impact the world.
Eliminate unnecessary screen time.
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