{"id":7610,"date":"2018-09-04T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:53:07","slug":"is-facebook-killing-your-motivation-by-mark-hatmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/is-facebook-killing-your-motivation-by-mark-hatmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook Killing Your Motivation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Answer Probably Won't<\/em> Surprise You<\/h4>\nSeveral studies have shown an overall decrease in the participation of team sports, civic activities, club memberships, and other similar participatory activities. Keep in mind that these are overall trends\/numbers. Not everyone is opting out\u2014raw numbers in bulk are doing less, but we must not mistake the exceptions for the rule.\n\nSome studies are also showing that (aside from the depressive effect that increased screen times have on the average person) we are seeing the decline of cognitive load\/ambition due in part to the phenomenon of \"vicarious experience\"<\/em>. That is to say, some self-report that watching videos or reading posts of people doing certain activities gives them a similar experience to doing the activity themselves.<\/strong>\n\nYou read that correctly. Viewing, in the eyes of many, is the same<\/em> as doing.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&limit=1&orderby=random']\n

...But That Doesn't Make Any Sense?<\/h4>\n
\n \nPhoto by Max Pixel<\/a><\/small><\/div>\nWhen we analyze that statement further, we realize that it is absurd on its face. Watching porn is not the same making love and viewing MMA from the safety of your couch is not the same as getting punched in the face. The man who climbed to the top of the mountain is in no shape, form, or fashion US<\/em>. That experience belongs to him and him alone.\n

Then Why Does This Happen?<\/h4>\nThe cognitive load\/tension within becomes lighter when one \"Likes\" or \"Shares\" such videos or posts. It is assumed the mechanism of adding this wee bit of physical action (the click or swipe) lightens our \"willpower\/ambition\" burden and gives a brief illusory burst that one is somehow, in some minuscule way, a part of the \"Liked\" or \"Shared\" activity.\n
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Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You<\/h4>\nAgain, absurd. This is nothing more than an illusion\u2014our brain is playing tricks on us. \"Liking\" porn is not even remotely similar to a light kiss on the cheek (nor does it bring us any closer to such an experience), \"Sharing\" a fight video is nowhere near the same as stepping foot into the gym or onto the mat, and posting a \"funny\" video does not mean that you have a funny bone in your body.\n\nOnly activities in which you are an active participant are actual accomplishments. I'll say it louder for the people in the back. Only activities in which you are an active participant are actual accomplishments.<\/strong> \"Liking\" and \"Sharing\" are merely polite acts of encouragement we direct toward others\u2014a kindness, of which I am of course not opposed.\n\nAny assumption of association with the accomplishments or doings of others is a delusion.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&limit=1&orderby=random']\n

A Legend's Perspective<\/h4>\nLet's allow the following observation from a legendary doer and his explorer compadre to drive the point home.\n\nThis insight comes from the National Geographic article titled \"To the Depths of the Sea by Bathysphere\"<\/em> by Jacques Cousteau dated July 1954. It tells of Cousteau and his team plunging to an unprecedented 4,000 feet beneath the Mediterranean Sea. In the below extract, an observer asks why they risked their lives instead of allowing the automatic camera aboard the experimental craft to do the dangerous work.\n
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Skeptical, one observer on board asked me if I really expected to see anything that 10,000 photographs failed to record. \"Of course!\" I said, \"A direct look is something else again.\"<\/p>\n

\"After all,\" added my friend Dumas, \"the eye is closer to the brain than the lens. The eye knows how to select.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Two Phrases To Keep In Mind:<\/h4>\n
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  1. A direct look is something else again.<\/em><\/li>\n \t
  2. And: The eye is closer to the brain than the lens.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nMight I amend to that, \"the eye is closer to the brain than the screen.\"\n
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    Wrapping Things Up<\/h4>\nI offer these observations in the hopes that we can all (myself included) start looking at \"Liking\" and \"Sharing\" the activities of others on social media as an inspiration to go out and achieve great things ourselves, not as a subconscious excuse to let ourselves off the cognitive-accomplishment hook.\n\nOtherwise, we end up having done nothing more than exercising our clicking finger while convincing ourselves we\u2019ve checked something off our bucket lists. In reality, the only thing we\u2019ll have accomplished is giving a big thumbs up to someone else's progress on their bucket list. I know I want more out of life than that, what about you?\n

    \n Click Here To Learn More From Mark Hatmaker<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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