I think there’s something valuable that comes with intentionally denying oneself something that is normally integral to one’s life.
I could make a case here for the psychological (and ~spiritual) benefits of the kind of general resilience this helps train, but on a very practical level sometimes, for example, the internet goes out, and it’s useful to know what to do if you’ve lost access to Google Mail, Docs, Maps, or whatever else you rely on. Doing that in a controlled setting is likely to be better because you can plan for it so it doesn’t negatively impact your life beyond the scope of the practice, and it allows you to get hands on experience with the situation so that would be hard to get otherwise.
I think of this as the same reason people in jobs that require high reliability do things like war games and practice drills to make sure they know what to do in high stakes situations by practicing first when stakes are low so they can make mistakes and learn without negative impacts.
I think there’s something valuable that comes with intentionally denying oneself something that is normally integral to one’s life.
I could make a case here for the psychological (and ~spiritual) benefits of the kind of general resilience this helps train, but on a very practical level sometimes, for example, the internet goes out, and it’s useful to know what to do if you’ve lost access to Google Mail, Docs, Maps, or whatever else you rely on. Doing that in a controlled setting is likely to be better because you can plan for it so it doesn’t negatively impact your life beyond the scope of the practice, and it allows you to get hands on experience with the situation so that would be hard to get otherwise.
I think of this as the same reason people in jobs that require high reliability do things like war games and practice drills to make sure they know what to do in high stakes situations by practicing first when stakes are low so they can make mistakes and learn without negative impacts.