Comments on: The Power of Becoming Invisible

By: Stc_gtmacarie

Stc_gtmacarie — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:00 +0000

strange person! you spent HOURS to write on blog about HOW TO LEAVE the net! what a stupid!

By: Samcarmx

Samcarmx — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:52:00 +0000

Yes. I think you’d be a hell of a lot happier if you gave up (in order of importance) TV, Twitter and Facebook, email (except to crucial family and friends), ditto the phone, newspapers and magazines. These will make you deal with concrete reality and take you away from cyber reality and wastes of time in this precious life. Happiness is being with the people you really love and admire, along with reading the great minds past and present, and a close relationship with the Eternal. Also, spend time in nature–preferably alone. This gives spiritual strength and insight.

By: Gold Standard

Gold Standard — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:13:00 +0000

My own experience is that, by and large, I am unconnected to social media and to people. It is my nature. I avoid most people most of the time. I was married for 20 years but she worked a lot and largely ignored me. My family would like to see more of me but I find the interactions awkward at best. I was on Facebook a while but other than a few family members had no friends. If forced to socialize I’m pleasant if not witty. I prefer not to. My leak has become twitter, although I have few followers other than spam bots. I live alone in a nice 4 bedroom house in a quiet community in Michigan, have a hot girlfriend, and have a rewarding profession. I grew up in front of TV and love music. I speak to my cats often, and like horse racing and financial markets. I have never striven to be happy as that is not my nature. To me, happiness is freedom from stress, peace and quiet, avoidance of the idiocy and judgement of others, and a whopping big TV set. Also, money in the bank, and gold and silver coins. And health. World peace would be outstanding but that depends on the lack of insanity of others, which, sadly, is increasing like the national debt.

By: Kellyrobert119

Kellyrobert119 — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:45:00 +0000

funnt article brilliant as most usual…i had to comment i put on a white shirt this week and said this is only color shirt i shuld wear ..i felt great in it!

By: Liberatore Celio

Liberatore Celio — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:06:00 +0000

reading your blog makes me anxious

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:25:00 +0000

A good friend has an old high school buddy who basically dropped out of society over 25 years ago. No TV. No radio. No newspaper. No telephone. No car. No family. No Job (his parents died and left him a house and enough money to not work anymore). The guys is basically a hermit, who sends all his time tending to his backyard garden. My friend only goes to see his buddy about 1 time per year. Well, about 1 year after the 9-11 attacks, I bet my friend that his buddy had no idea about 9-11. He said I might be right. So the next time he drove over to his house he asked him about 9-11. This guy had no idea about it and no interest in any of it when my friend started to explain what happened. I would say this guy is basically in his own demented world. He took the drop out of society idea to an extreme. Now this guy doesn’t live in the backwoods of Montana or something like that. He lives in Buena Park, California. In highly populated Orange County, a very short drive to Disneyland in Anaheim.

By: Priceat

Priceat — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:00:00 +0000

I find it impossible to stalk my ex-girlfriends without the use of social networking. If you can think of an altenative means, I will begin paring down my list of leaks.

By: willywonka

willywonka — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:15:00 +0000

I have no facebook or any of that crap. Your leak is that you are insanely insecure and desperate for approval from strangers on facebook or your blog posts?
Does that seem healthy to you?

Here have some chocolate.

By: Derek Dodds

Derek Dodds — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:01:00 +0000

I love this post because I think about these things all the time. I really question if all the additional virtual connections are adding value to my life or to other’s lives. It’s hard to know unless people tell you, but perhaps it doesn’t matter if they tell you, but I sure like it when they do. You are adding value to mine James, not every post, but more often than not I find something that deepens my river or brightens my landscape. Still I wonder, was that comment more for me or for you. Maybe it’s for both of us and that’s just fine.

By: 阿凡提

阿凡提 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Willpower as a muscle- I like that metaphor.

Like muscular strength, at any given point in time willpower is relatively limited. One can only bench press so much today . With the right mind set, they might be able to get out a couple extra reps, but if they try to go too heavy too fast, they could injure themselves. But by adding a little weight each time(combined with rest and nutrition), in time they will lift freakishly heavy weights.

On a related note people can redirect obsessive tendencies, or overcompensate for weaknesses and past failures in many interesting ways. Sometimes the results are extremely high performance, success and happiness. Other times, merely new self destructive behavior.

I look forward to your upcoming post. Labeling leaks followed by gradually reducing their severity. I must admit I never thought of that…