Joy is about Choices
Joy is about choices.
It's nearly as simple as that: learn to prioritize life-giving experiences and reject the life-taking.
The logic may be simple, but understanding how to make those choices when we face them requires courage - especially when it means missing out on something else. FOMO is a powerful force and we weren't taught to find joy in saying no.
But saying no we must.
It was technology philosopher Albert Borgmann who first got me thinking about joy as a series of choices.
No one has shaped my thinking on how to live well in the digital age more than Albert. Throughout his long life, he’s studied and written about the impact of technological advancement on every aspect of society, asking vital questions about the trade-offs of tech on our well-being.
With that kind of build-up, you can imagine how thrilled I was to interview him on the JOMO(cast).
By then, I had already introduced The JOMO Method program to the world, and Borgmann's words made me more confident than ever in this work of inspiring and educating others with the joy of missing out on the right things.
In this JOMO(cast) episode we talk about:
How lifting every burden by technology comes with an associated cost
That good burdens - the relationships and projects that make us come alive - reward us with joy
That media means in between and the less mediated (ex. social media posting vs a direct phone call) our communication the more intimate it is
And that our ability to communicate clearly, understand, and remember information is measurably impaired by overreliance on tech to perform these tasks for us.
It's one of the interviews I'm most proud of. Give it a listen.
