Thread by @TihoBrkan

It’s been great to take a month off from social media & completely disconnect.

Additionally, while disconnecting I also ran an experiment of meditating at least 60 mins per day for a whole month.

Did anything change while I removed social media and looked inwards?

It seems to be having a profound effect on the following:

• personal calmness (& lots of smiling)
• sleep quality (long time since I spelt more than 8 hrs)
• daily awareness
• reduction in anxiety (social media has an awful impact here)
• cognitive clarity (no brain fog)

• reduced decision fatigue (and increase in decision speed)
• improved memory (and ability to recall & retrieve more facts, events, data points, etc)
• consistency of focus during deep work sessions
• desire to read more long format work (books, white papers, etc)

I’ve meditated over the years for 10 mins/day, but never 1 hour+ in a single session & stayed disciplined on the daily basis.

And I never coupled it with a social media cold turkey. This is one of the highest leverage activities I’ve done for my well being & personal health.

While social media has benefits, it is becoming more & more clear that our hunter-gathering, ancient lizard brains, are just not going to behave in a healthy manner in such environments for long periods of time.

It’s unhealthy.

And since I’m not selling any courses…

…newsletters, or attempting to raise capital for a next syndication & earn fees from my follower base,

The natural thing to do, in 2022 and beyond, is to take a lot more social media breaks.

Of course, no one should act based on anecdotal evidence with a sample size of one.