Curate My Consumption | Binge Life
Decades ago, I wrote seven sets of life values, one for each day of the week. Each morning since, I review them and scratch some notes in my journal to deepen their imprint. One of them from my Tuesday set is “discipline” and here is what I wrote…
DISCIPLINE
Welcoming the best from myself. Being dedicated to my life tasks: ardent, resolute, diligent, and mindful.
Don’t lay around watching television or movies. Use my time to make a life rather than watching actors pretending to live someone else’s.
Develop life routines which I can embrace. Rely on habits rather than willpower.
Do not beat myself emotionally.
Provide help and care to those that need it.
Although not many people may agree on the purpose of life, almost everyone will agree that some part of life is learning how life works, how to create more love in the world, how to share our gifts, how to be a good person, how to make ourself and those around us thrive, how to help and serve.
I have always learned best from reading, and the reading I love best is the collection of works by great thinkers throughout history. Even though I am woefully lacking in many areas, I would be even more so without their teachings, introspection, and inspiration.
It is alarmingly easy to allow algorithms to curate my information consumption, but, for the most important things, I believe curating content should be trusted only to my inner wisdom. Although apps may know what I need to be entertained, I know what I need to be a better human.
Binge life!
“What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated - tranquility, fearlessness, and freedom. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free.”