{"id":1825,"date":"2020-10-10T18:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2020-10-10T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:15:52","slug":"experiments-with-digital-detox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/experiments-with-digital-detox\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments with digital detox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This whole idea triggered from the blog post from Ishani about Digital Detox<\/a>. Especially I liked the Ted talk What I Learned from 10 Years of Digital Detox<\/a>. I can’t believe someone could do this for 10 years and immediately got hooked by the concept. I’m not new to this and have tried to implement this many a times in the past. But had to let go because of multiple reasons. There was always work, a critical server downtime issue, anxiety of being away from phone\/computer, FOMO and many other things. I also did’t know about the App Limits and Downtime feature in iOS. Looks like you need the right help from technology to stay away from technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the settings for my downtime. I’ve done this twice in a row and truth be told, have been throughly enjoying it so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first week I slept most of the day (14 hours straight) and didn’t feel like I got a lot from the day. Once you wake up at 2 PM, it feels like most of the day is already gone. Just watched a movie with Vasudha (at home of course) in the late evening and that ended the downtime. Thankfully, my calendar had a few interviews setup before I decided to do the detox. Taking a few interviews reduced the anxiety of being away from computer for so long. In short, this was a good balanced detox with some “cheats” embedded in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second week, I certainly didn’t want to spend the whole day just sleeping. Woke up early. Also, I never had any interviews for that day. So this is my first full day detox. The two major things I focused on was cleaning my place and spending quality time with Vasudha. As expected, spending quality time without electronic devices is calming. We played the usual Sequence game, went for a walk + shopping and watched a nice movie<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried reading from a physical book, but couldn’t continue after 15 minutes. I have to do something to increase my attention span with physical books. I think I’ve lost the ability to focus on books since my college days. Of course, post 10:00 PM, I was getting more and more restless. I think there is always going to be anxiety when it is close the end of the downtime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I plan to do this regularly with a twist. Instead of doing a full day downtime, I plan to have 1 (or at max 2) breaks in between for 45 mins. I think it will reduce my anxiety about missing out something important. Overall, a new experience and something I guess everyone should do once in a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This whole idea triggered from the blog post from Ishani about Digital Detox. Especially I liked the Ted talk What I Learned from 10 Years of Digital Detox. I can’t believe someone could do this for 10 years and immediately got hooked by the concept. I’m not new to this …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}