Distraction is born within us
We often blame social media for making us feel distracted but as Oliver Burkeman points out in his book 4000 weeks: The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation. When we work on the more mundane parts of the meaningful projects we want to execute we crave for a joy that we might have lived, had we spent our time else