Do NOT Use Your Phone when you go for number 2
Reaching for your phone, or a magazine/newspaper/book when you go for number two is the canary that your tolerance for being bored is critically low. If you are reaching for the phone at the time of going to the bathroom then then you are likely not able to practice Deliberate Liberal Ignorance well in other areas of life, and that means your ability to focus overall is likely sufferring. Hence, as a basic canary test for your habits of interacting with information: must NOT use your phone when you poop.
Must NOT use your phone when you go for number 2 - Basic canary test for information interaction habits.
~If you can't be bored for 5-10 minutes, then it makes you very fragile and makes you very easy to manipulate. Tim-Ferris/podclip
Use technology but don't let it use you.
Next time when you are picking the phone, ask yourself: "Do you want to be bored and creative (see Boredom), or do you want to distract yourself?"
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- Book: Atomic Habits - small continuous habit changes compound (both positively and negatively).
- Book: You Will Die - On the Taboos of modern society and how certain things were not Taboo before (like Louis XIV giving an audience while going for number 2)