Be honest with me - cause I just caught myself.....
How many of us are spending time reading things on here instead of making progress on what we are "working on"?
Granted, I'm sitting at my day job and just being distracted for a bit... I am in process of just learning to code, teaching myself the skills to be able to build a new career for myself.
I just found this site a few days ago, and have really enjoyed the few interactions and reading all of the stuff that people are posting and listening to the podcast. It really is a great little community!
That being said - I'm sure I could sneak a minute here, a minute there to learn a JS trick, or watch one section of the classes I'm taking online to move myself along....
So who is on here getting inspired... who is on here avoiding what they say they want to be doing. Be honest! I know I could be more productive, so I thought I'd see if I could help someone else too.
Definitely understand this. @Harlem's daily standups helped - post about what you're working on and why so IH becomes a tool :)
I cut out FB after the Cambridge Analytica stuff (I'm sure they still have enough data to track me haha), and I don't feel I've lost much. But IH, just like blogs and books and other resources, can easily be a way to waste time when I'm not trying to apply knowledge.
It's good to differentiate "I'm here to look for something specific" vs "I'm enjoying reading about new things, but still wasting time."
I think wasting time is necessary, but too much of it is a bit stressful and not beneficial :)
having an escape or way to step away from something is definitely good. Just depends on if it's ten minutes or two hours... that's when things get dicey. I know I can go down a youtube hole for a couple hours just because of avoidance. Certainly something I can work on!
Totally. IH is just as much of a dopamine needle for me as Facebook. Maybe even more, because on IH I kinda fit with the majority (making some figures already but not much yet), while on Facebook all I see is how everyone except me are having a good time.
I totally realize it, however I cannot do anything about it. Blocking sites doesn't work — they only start feeling kinda more precious to me. And FOMO is real.
(good thing I'm not on Instagram, that would be even more painful)
News feeds, by design, are highly addictive.
That's why I was sad when I saw the front page of the site move away from the products and to the forum. People can always exercise willpower to resist, but it still adds to the modern struggle.
I think the first step is realizing it. I struggled when I thought of writing the post because I don't want to discourage people coming here because it's a great community - however, having a clear idea of why I'm coming to this site consistently is good to have.
It's interesting reading differing opinions and ways to go about doing something - that part is great and can get me thinking. Honestly, I've always found it difficult to get too into social things like IH, Twitter, etc... but then you see really successful people (seemingly) on social media all of the time...