One woman’s journey to getting stuff done.
. One assumption is that, because our phones do everything for us, we don’t need to learn adult skills. We don’t go shopping, we order clothes from our phone. We don’t cook, we get Deliveroo. We don’t ponder the universe, we Google it. In a world where ‘there’s an app for that’ we’ve managed to outsource almost everything.But Dr Zeena Feldman, digital culture expert from King’s College London, tells me that time-saving technology isn’t giving us a free pass to relax.
The answer then is surely to stop prioritising our professional lives over our personal ones? If only it were that simple. “I suppose if you want to be cynical, you might say that our friendships aren’t going to pay our rent,” says Dr Feldman. Amid a housing crisis, freelance culture and, frankly, crap income, we can’t risk not working at 200% capacity.Maybe this is a first world problem, but I also feel paralysed by our consumer based world.
This, she explains to me, is when we don’t do a task, and then feel guilt at doing something wrong, which then builds into shame that we are bad people. “Then that makes us even more paralysed. The key is to break out of that cycle.”
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