You’re Too Online: Touching Grass & The Unmooring of the Real Life World

For Succession fans, that term “You’re too online” would be recognizable. But the reality is that many of us are way too online. I’m certainly guilty of this. I spend hours everyday online, email, Youtube, messenger and X aka Twitter. Way too much X. 

I get lots of insights and inspiration but also lots of rage. It has also led to a marked decline in sociability in real life and dramatic decline in my ability to focus and concentrate. The quick dopamine hits are really damaging. And I’m generation X where I had to adapt to this in my twenties and thirties, not teens. No wonder the kids these days are so whacked out. Their brains are fried. 

I think this is why there has been a backlash against mobile phones in some schools and households. We see the rise of digital sabbath where 1-2 days of the week are spent away from phones and computers. I see the rise of experiences and more hardcore athletic endeavors whether mountain climbing or martial arts where you have to be present. Or you literally will fall off a cliff or get punched in the face. We see the popularization of meditation. These are all signs of the counter-reaction to the digital trend. A way to retake our lives back.  

As the ever wise Tai Lopez said: “Never stay fully connected to the (digital) world. Leave the phone in the house and go outside for at least an hour a day.”

Go take walks in nature. Grab a coffee or long lunch with some friends. Go rock climbing. Learn  martial arts or how to shoot a gun. Travel to obscure places off the beaten path.  #LiveExperienceMaxxing is a thing. If you do this, you may have a chance to recover from the digital dopamine hits wrecking all of us. Besides, IRL experiences are always better than virtual ones.