2-3-4 Friday
‘Seeking to spark the most potential within you per word of any online newsletter’
1 thought
Of late, I’ve been studying TikTok. How to create content for it, how to
engage more people on it, and how to get people hooked.
To me.
One course I attended had a video editor tell us,
We often think that young people have short attention spans today.
But that’s not always true.
It’s just that they refuse to get bored.
What happens when we refuse to get bored?
Well, you’d get what you see on subways, buses, and on the streets, people constantly on their phones, scrolling, walking and trying to squeeze out entertainment and stimulation from every fragment of
time.
I used to think that as long as you keep them at an arm’s distance, it’d be okay.
And yes I confess (it’s me, not you), that I’ve had a holier-than-thou attitude when I see people using their phones.
I don’t think it’s about living an indistractable life. It’s just about living an intentional life.
If that’s time you’ve scheduled to waste, then go ahead and have fun with it.
The bigger concern is
that we now live our lives through so much of these screens that we forget there’s a wider life out here, in reality.
1 talk
Time scheduled for relaxation is not wasted time.
1 tip
Phones can be little portals to
escape the complexities of this world.
Tap an app, and you’re crushing candy. Or scrolling through the lives of others, or getting entertainment in short, sharp, 1-minute bits.
But if we faced the world, what would we find? A lot more to learn.
Just put that phone down for a moment and observe
people on your train carriage.
What’s the most common thing most people are doing?
Here in Singapore at least, the most common is sleeping. Walk into any carriage, and most people seated are trying to catch some shut-eye, even if it’s just for 12 minutes.
In the
reflections of these actions, you might find a little of yourself there.
You might see how tired you are. Or see how disconnected you are from the world as you watch most others lost in their mobile world.
And that might prompt change. Because you don’t often catch a mirror of yourself in action, except through people-watching.
You might even realise how much of the world you're missing. And stop using your phone that much.