The more you’re taking calls and answering texts and keeping up with social media and what’s going on back home, the more you’ll remain in your ordinary mental space, continuing to reinforce the same habits and patterns you’re here to change.
This is true in general, at least when it comes to social media. If they’ve figured out a way to make you spend >2 hours doing something that you would never choose to spend >2 hours doing, then they’re going to try to run with it and keep it going (given that the corporation would want such a thing in the first place, which they typically do in the current era).
Running with it and keeping it going doesn’t just mean keeping the experience consistent as long as possible, although that’s the most important factor. It also means keeping you yourself consistent, in order to guarantee that you feel consistent; whatever it takes to consistently cause you to fail to notice that >15% of your waking hours are consistently stolen from you every single day.
This is true in general, at least when it comes to social media. If they’ve figured out a way to make you spend >2 hours doing something that you would never choose to spend >2 hours doing, then they’re going to try to run with it and keep it going (given that the corporation would want such a thing in the first place, which they typically do in the current era).
Running with it and keeping it going doesn’t just mean keeping the experience consistent as long as possible, although that’s the most important factor. It also means keeping you yourself consistent, in order to guarantee that you feel consistent; whatever it takes to consistently cause you to fail to notice that >15% of your waking hours are consistently stolen from you every single day.