This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 842, surf, sand, and digital sabbaticals by

Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Sunday, Easter Sunday if you're

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and start optimizing your life. Surf, sand, and digital sabbaticals by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle.com.

Digital sabbaticals are big right now and I know a lot of people who have taken them and enjoyed

the time spent away from their devices. I take them involuntarily all the time, one of the benefits

or downsides of traveling frequently and I enjoy them to a certain extent but I want to take a stab

at changing the metaphor usually associated with the digital sabbatical and how technology is viewed

as a whole. Generally when someone decides to take time away from their gadgets, sometimes just one

like a phone and sometimes a whole of the internet or anything that requires electricity to function

this is seen as a Walden experience like the Rowan is pond and his own extraction from modern

society with all the associated introspection. I like that metaphor and I want to keep that aspect

of it but I would like to change the origin. Instead of starting out in some vague non-cabin in the

woods modern day lifestyle you're coming from a futuristic robot operated home perched above an

ocean. This mechanical seaside home of yours is usually great when you enjoy the myriad benefits

of living in a clean and closed safe space. The robotic furniture and appliances are real time

savers and while they are cooking your food and serving up entertainment you're free to sit and

let the slow surging sounds of the tide wash over you. Sometimes though you want to cook your own

food and choose your own TV shows and ebooks to them by. Sometimes you just want to get away from

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