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  1. Mar 2024
    1. And I’m worried that in a lot of other cases, this attention to product over process is poisoning us and making us miss out on possible pleasures.

      What are some good methods and practices someone can use to fully grasp the experience that comes with the process of doing something? It's so easy to get caught up in life and hyperfocus about the outcome for the things we want to do, rather than the process of getting there which can lead to not even getting there. So, how often should we check ourselves to make sure we are being and living in the full moment rather than just doing.

    2. There’s all the stuff that you don’t see. All you see is the number going up. And the number going up picks up on some really simple things. It doesn’t pick up on how deeply someone cared about what you said. It picks up on whether they clicked like

      There's definitely a stigma with social media and real-life impact. We now live in a time where people can live off of social media and reach people from across the world. People can tend to use social media as a way to validate their ideas and/or opinions through likes and repost but a downfall of this is when people let likes and repost be the determining factor for how they feel about something. For example, if you were to make a post with only 50 likes, big deal but if you were to be outside and 50 people gave you a compliment, you'd feel pretty good about yourself. So, it's important to separate social media from real life in terms of how we measure our success, looks, opinions, etc.

    3. we’ve lost sight of how important activities are and we’re just obsessed with how important the output is and the product is. And that’s partially because we’ve been swept up in this hyper-industrialized product-oriented world where we think, look, the thing that I’m trying to achieve is the thing that’s valuable.

      I think Brewer's opinion on this is very valid especially when it comes to education. I think even with being in college I find myself thinking more about what assignments I have and when I have to do them by to receive full credit rather than the assignment itself. It's in this that I lose sight of the knowledge I'm meant to gain, and it takes away from process of actually completing the assignment; setting aside intentional time, understanding what makes sense, what doesn't, asking all the questions, etc.