1/The most insidious form of consumption is digital content. Designed to keep the monkey mind engaged while putting you to sleep.
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11/In fact this is exactly how your brain perceives it. In this environment no matter how you direct choice and attention, you'll eat more.
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12/The problem is that automatic responses lead to automatic living. It is impossible to be in the monkey mind and simultaneously present.
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13/Most solutions to this problem end up with a constant tug of war with the monkey mind; an inefficient, draining, Sisyphean lost cause.
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14/To think you can exert control over the monkey mind & give it free reign is like letting children play with matches near a gas station.
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15/The effective solution is modifying the environment so that the automatic response of consuming information can't be instantly gratified.
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16/Time & space are needed to notice these responses, to be conscious of the monkey mind so you have the choice of not being defined by it.
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17/It's fruitless to fight against the monkey mind; you cannot choose its responses. What you can do is to limit its range of opportunity.
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18/The rule of thumb is this: When the monkey mind is, you are not. When you are, the monkey mind is not. To know which is? Pay attention.
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Is reading a book indulging in the "monkey mind" ?
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You presumably choose to read a book which isn't an unconscious/stimulus response. So I wouldn't say the monkey mind plays a lot into it.
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Is there evidence that earlier, "analogue" generations were more mentally present on average?
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A case could surely be made that there was less opportunity for absent-mindedness but it would vary depending on culture/social class/etc.
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