September 4th, 2023
- #2tweet one of the reasons feeds hijack your attention
is that most of what you see, you'll never see again
and your mind rates rare opportunities as more important
so
each.
tweet.
you see...
generates a tiny but sticky sense of needing to engage- one of the reasons feeds hijack your attention
is that most of what you see, you'll never see again
and your mind rates rare opportunities as more important
so
each.
tweet.
you see...
generates a tiny but sticky sense of needing to engage - generates a tiny panic
- generates a meeseeks
- generates a tiny high-priority task
- feels like a chance to make an unfixable mistake
- solution
- something like asking each lil urge "who's your boss?" and asking the boss if it needs more opportunities or whatever
- like, this random lil thing might be unique, but the overall situation probably isn't
- #2tweet action
- huh.
action
activation
actuation
actualization
all act + ion, but with different stuff in the middle
- hmm, a case study of an estranged parent would actually be a really great example
- because there's, I think, a common dynamic of feeling like the kid wants something impossible, and being stuck in the mode of relating that one does want