technical kartik

Replying in social media.

Luckily for me, I’m not very active.

I am not interested in voicing my viewpoint on arbitrary matters.

I recently read an answer—which I can not seem to locate right now—about how awful it is that so many people believe that white people are hateful.
e is not racist and hating men is not sexist.

I voted it up and continued.

I just thought “the internet has given stupid people a mic”

The point is that I do not participate.

That’s a good thing (for my mental state) but a “bad thing” for my internet “fame”. Just pure math: if I wrote more comments I’d be seen by more people.

Yet.

When I do interact with someone, I spend too much time on the website refreshing to see whether they have responded!

I hate that.

Especially since even if the topic was me defending children and the other person defending pedophiles (it never is that serious), even if I win the argument it wouldn’t change anything at all!

When I first started writing on Quora I’d refresh to see if people upvoted – but there comes a point when you get the message 🙂 but with the replies, you know they will reply, and it’s like chess,You know they will respond, and it is like a game of chess—you think you know exactly what they are going to say, so you respond seconds after they do, and they still take hours to respond.

In my opinion, this is a really bad behavior.

Suddenly, as I was reading a book, I would go and turn the page.

My goal is to eliminate this.

Although this response is a little bit deceptive—as I previously stated, I do not often comment—it seems that the world depends on me to persuade the other person to see things my way, and I would not be surprised if the person on the other end was pissing off. Occasionally, it

Arguments with people. I used to waste a lot of time being pissed off at the world especially during High School. I was bullied and picked on because of my emotional instability as well. Over the years I’ve learnt to have a far stronger control over my emotions, have been meditating consistently for the past 400 or so days, have spent hours learning about psychology and certain behavioural patterns in others. All this has now allowed me to laugh at most situations and reasons people find to be angry. Every time I sense someone wants to start an argument I diffuse it by either walking away or just letting them “win” without wasting more energy than necessary.

Scrolling randomly through Instagram pictures and accounts.
I used to waste a lot of time on Facebook but have since deleted the application from my phone along with the messenger app. I barely log in anymore.
I used to waste a lot of time on porn but have since reduced the time scrolling/ searching for videos that worked for me. I’m also slowly weening myself away from it in general.

Worrying about potential outcomes that probably wouldn’t ever eventuate into anything.
Certain people who barely contributed anything of value to my life. don’t do this anymore and have learnt to strengthen my filter on how to accurately assess the people I’m around.

I used to waste a lot of time complaining about issues and headaches in my work. I’ve since realised it’s pointless and not going to solve anything. I’ve learnt to adjust my focus and perspective to search for the positive benefits and things I can learn from the experience.

I wasted time on the meaningless material in university and school for a while. I used to think that exam results mattered when in reality it doesn’t mean anything at all. Everyone knows the school systems and knowledge on tests are more redundant than ever. Eventually I left university and worked on developing skills that do matter throughout life.

Randomly consuming content on Youtube and with certain podcasts without properly digesting it. I still do this a lot with Joe Rogen podcast and some YouTube channels but I’ve learnt to only focus on content where I know some insight or notion shared is going to benefit me.