Progressive Change

It can be overwhelming, at times, to think about solving all the world's miriad problems. It may feel a bit like playing whack-a-mole. But perhaps that is an artifact of reductionist thinking, compartmentalizing life's myriad problems into separate problems to be solved with unique solutions for all of them.

What if the solution to MOST problems in the world was a much simpler algorithm? What if a global solution existed that minimized the inefficient work of trying to tackle every individual problem uniquely?

It turns out there is. 95% of the problems that impact your life can be solved by three things:

1. Daily aerobic exercise (30+ minutes, recommended). Anything that gets your heart rate up to about double your resting heart rate will benefit you mentally and physically.

2. Eating a whole food, plant based diet. This improves your health too, and has the added benefit of significantly reducing climate change (by about 75%) and washing away the sin of animal cruelty. You become more civic minded and compassionate.

3. Abstain from all social and most mainstream media. This is tough to do, but literally makes you smarter, happier, and more relaxed. Social and mainstream media have become toxic, vitriolic, and poisonous stuff.

You may be skeptical of the thesis of this post. So, the good news is...you can PUT IT TO THE TEST! Simply practice the above three things for about a month and see if you don't notice the positive changes. You can always go back to your old ways if you don't. But I happen to know for a fact that you will experience noticeable positive benefits within about two weeks. I encourage you to try it for a month though, just to confirm that those changes are genuine and lasting. You won't want to go back. But you can...

Take care!

Boycott Time

There is an effective solution to all the chaos and toxicity going on in the world right now. It's not an easy solution, but it's very doable if you are passionate, purposeful, and motivated to create change.

It's time for those of us who want the world to be better, more joyous, and positive to BOYCOTT ALL SOCIAL AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA. Just turn it off for a few weeks or months. You can pop in on it from time to time, but don't stay engaged with it in any meaningful or indeterminate way. We now know that ATTENTION is inversely correlated with CREDIBLE INFORMATION. The more attention grabbing social media information is, the less credible it is. Fact.

The reason this kind of mass boycott can work to change the world - if enough people do it - is that in our electronically connected (and often addicted) world, ATTENTION is a valuable commodity. Huge corporate profits are made by keeping YOUR eyeballs on screens. It may not seem like it when you are in it...but consider WHY IS MOST SOCIAL MEDIA FREE? Someone's paying for it. But not you. Because...and this is true...YOU ARE THE PRODUCT BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD (or more precisely your attention is being bought and sold). Advertisers are paying the social media platforms and underwriting their tech because they know that can get your eyeballs locked onto the very screens that bring them profits. They don't actually care about the validity or credibility of the information you are seeing on social media. They just want you to relentlessly consume it.

If 25% of the population suddenly WITHHELD its attention (the profitable commodity we are all the fungible tokens of), these technology corporations would feel the hit financially. They would then complain to their political policy makers and demand changes to end the boycott.

The main obstacle to this solution is ADDICTION. Social media (and to some extent mainstream media) are ridiculously addictive and hard to quit. But people quit addictions all the time...usually because they have a WHY.

If you knew for certain that intentionally boycotting social and mainstream media could affect positive change, would you do it? Well, it can. So do it.

It might be good to have your WHY in mind, and it helps if your WHY is shared with a lot of other people. My WHY is to keep toxic grievance and vitriol out of my life and since I have eliminated social and mainstream media from my life, 99.9% of all that negativity is OUT OF MY LIFE. I am not going to consume social and mainstream media until those media do a better job at detoxifying themselves.

I encourage you to go 100% media free for a minimum of two weeks and ideally one month. You'll be shocked and pleasantly surprised how much more positive, happy, and smart you become when the "fake news" is out of your life.

The End.

You Have the Power

You have the power to keep annoying, toxic people out of your life. The only avenue such people have into your life is social and mainstream media (SMSM). Disenfranchise SMSM from your life and you disenfranchise those people from your life. You don't need SMSM. You think you do. But you don't. That's just the addiction talking.

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Fortuitous Discovery

I have completely disenfranchised social and mainstream media (SMSM) from my life for the past 10 days, as part of a SMSM fasting challenge. In so doing, I realized I had also inadvertently disenfranchised most toxicity from my life. SMSM, as it turns out, is currently one of the only places where toxicity impacts my life. It's good to know that almost 100% of all toxicity is contained to SMSM now. That makes it easy to compartmentalize and dismiss. The rest of my life is quite detoxified, by comparison to SMSM. That was a brilliant discovery.

I am boycotting all media until they clean up their act and detoxify.

I encourage you to try it.

The End.