3229: Set Your Defaults by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Productivity, Focus & Mindfulness

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3229: Colin Wright of ExileLifestyle.com shares how turning off phone notifications empowered him to regain control over his digital life. He encourages us to reassess our interactions with technology, reminding us that we have the power to set boundaries and customize our devices to serve our needs better, rather than letting them control us. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://exilelifestyle.com/set-default/ Quotes to ponder: "We don’t recognize, I think, how much power we have over the tools we use every day." "Your devices can serve as gatekeepers for your attention, if you let them." "Retake control of your digital life, and be a serf no longer to the authoritarian pings that have come to negatively sway your day." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5	This is optimal living daily episode 3229.
0:34.0	Set your defaults by Colin Wright of exile lifestyle.com
0:38.0	and I'm your narrator Justin Molick reading you blogs
0:41.0	every single day of the year including holidays. We're going to get right to
0:44.6	today's post as we optimize your life.
0:50.9	Set your defaults by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle.com.
0:57.0	Years ago I turn off the notifications on my phone.
1:01.0	Today, except for rare moments when I'm waiting on a call or have an alarm set
1:06.1	so I don't miss a flight, those notifications stay turned off. We don't recognize, I think, how much power we have over the tools we use every day.
1:17.0	For many people, over time, these tools come to represent something other than what they are.
1:24.1	They seize to be portals into a wider world connecting us with knowledge and people to which
1:29.4	we would otherwise be ignorant.
1:32.1	These pocketable supercomputers are no longer thought of as
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