Friday, November 6, 2020

Unhackable


 

Kary Oberbrunner recently wrote a book entitled Unhakable. The focus of the book is how easy it is for our lives to be hacked by smart technology like TV, phones, Alexa and other modern devices and the result of this is our distraction from our original purpose. These diversions steal our sense of creativity, ideas, dreams and missions in life. It's not unusual for people to sit around the house and binge watch a Netflix series for 20 hours instead of doing something more rewarding like writing, drawing, building something, having a real conversation or going outside to play.

The hacking part comes when these smart devices divert us from our own mind's ability to think for ourselves. They attempt to tell us what to think, what to buy, how to act and what our values should be. Some are consumed with knowing what the latest update is on social media and how many likes we get on our latest posts.

One possible and very promising antidote is our intentional devotion to personal responsibility. The operative word here is intentional. It's a mindful determination to look away from the hacking devices around us and do something real and tangible upon which we actually make progress.