Never Sit At Home All Day Even If You Need To Study

[Algi]

Basically, something I recalled lately from one of the books I read a while ago in "chimp paradox" and the writer explains the power of creating 3 main places in your life: Home, work and some other special place where you can think about yourself like nature, for me it would be running. 

I only realised the power of it today: Me sitting at home all day gets me mildly depressed even if I am being productive, and it may be obvious to get out,but until today I never realised the power of a "third" place. Which for me actually was driving around in a car by myself and being reflective on my studies/work etc. Anyway, what the chimp paradox says is that you more likely to overcome a problem by putting yourself in a different enviroment ideally by yourself. Like Einstein would go and think about equations when he got stuck! Apart from they weren't GCSEs like mine! Obvious but how many people wonder about their problems...

[Evilwave Heddy]

I think I'd be lost without my car.  I dedicate a half an hour to an hour drive by myself every day...just to listen to music and drive around.  When I get back home I feel really relaxed and calm.

As for sitting at home for an entire day without going out.  I haven't done that in years.

[Algi]

@Evilwave Heddy great! Fuel must be cheap where you are! Lol. Not even if you are sick?

[Evilwave Heddy]

@Algi Fuel is kind of the problem, I'm spending too much money on it..but it's worth it. Lol I've thought to myself a few times that I really need to stop driving so much...but the next day I'm back driving again.

Even when I'm sick.   Driving actually takes my mind off being sick.

I suppose you could call this a bad habit. lol

[cly]

This may sound weird, but to me when I have spent a day or more alone at one location just sitting around, I have used it as a sort of training to understand solitary confinement-level experience. . Experience of being secluded and in a limited space of solitary confinement.  What does one gain from such a limited amount of space and movement?  ...and being so aware of your own thoughts?  imagine truely being in a prison.....and being isolated, and I say to myself, hanh, I wouldn't want life to actually do that "solitaire confinement" experience to me, to learn some life lesson of how to be mindful or simplify to stay more consciously in the here and now moment,  I wouldn't want life to force that on me, so I try to understand and feel the experience willingly. What value can I get from this isolation.  I guess it could be inline with living in the wilderness alone in some cabin.....Remember the tv show grizzly Adams? I just pictured that.  I don't know, I think alone all day at home may be a mini mini experience of solitary confinement and could be valuable as our intelligence as humans evolves.

[Algi]

@cly I see your point, I am intertrested in retreats, but this was not about that. I have tried the kinda things you talking about. In other cases when you are not thinking about solitirary confinement then is good to get out.

[Saarah]

This is why I wish my bus journey was longer, I never want to get off at my stop I just wish I could sit on the bus all day, but I ain't got that kind of money lol 

[appleaurorae]

Absolutely agreed with the topic title. Whether it's cold, raining or sunny, I just need to go biking or for a walk to not be a zombie for the rest of the day.

@edit:

Today I left home during rain, just to feel that water dripping on me. During stroll I found out that a place where I had used to play with cousins when I was younger, was completely rebuild and changed a lot.

Edited April 17, 2016 by appleaurorae