"Well, I don't do that!"
Well...I'm guessing you do—because we all do, at least some of the time.
So, perhaps, we just need to learn how we, each in our own personal ways, sabotage ourselves. We can and need to learn to work at ways to prevent ourselves from doing so.
These may not be the most potent examples, but they likely identify some of the ways we self-sabotage:
Doom Scrolling
Being informed is a virtue. It helps us make better decisions and encourages us to take action.
Getting hooked on an endless scroll of media inputs is not the same as being informed. There’s long been a business model of urgent news (“man bites dog!”), but now it’s been leveraged, amplified and optimized to suck people in for hours at a time. And division is much easier to sell than progress.
If it’s not helping you take action to make things better, what’s it for?
-- Seth Godin
