Comment by K0balt
5 hours ago
Idk, I find that carefully tending the garden of the mind , sowing the seeds I want to harvest later, eradicating the weeds with prejudice, and in general not entertaining things which are not useful to my purposes is, for me, a highly beneficial practice.
This does not mean to ignore things that are unpleasant, but rather to not allow things that do not benefit your diverse goals to occupy your productive potential, focusing instead on things that inform your path, actionable and relevant information, tools rather than distractions.
> in general not entertaining things which are not useful to my purposes is
Yeah, I think I do more or less the same as you describe, except my barrier to figuring out what is "not useful to my purposes" requires it to first exist in my mind for a while, before I can discard it as not applicable, as sometimes seemingly random things in one context somehow relates to completely different things.
I've chosen to do stuff sometimes that made no sense besides "It's fun but a waste of time" and it ended up leading me to realizations and experiences I wouldn't have had otherwise. But if I focused too much on avoiding things and optimizing "what I let in", I'd never be open enough to learn what I didn't know I could learn from it.