Distractions.

[dwixi]

I was thinking about what Steve says about how a job can be just a distraction from your purpose. Just as watching Tv or anything like that.

This got me thinking about the relationship between are desires and distractions.
A job spending 9 hours a day working on something pointless to you to spend on EVEN MORE distractions is one kind of distraction.
But can distractions be to your advantage?
I think.. they kinda can.

A house: A distraction from the fact that it is cold outside.
Food: A distraction from the fact you need food to live.

These distractions are a good thing for most people.
If you were at the point that you were so high of conscious you didn't need food then.. I guess you don't need that distraction.
Lots of people have got to the point that they don't need the distraction of having a house.

There are loads of other thing Thinking about this has sparked for me.
It would be nice to here other peoples opinions on this.
Thanks.

[lifetimelearner]

but I don't consider food or shelter as distractions

[dwixi]

Originally Posted by lifetimelearner

but I don't consider food or shelter as distractions

So eating food is your life purpose?

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by dwixi

So eating food is your life purpose?

maybe

when I think of distraction I think of this definition:

"that which distracts, divides the attention, or prevents concentration"
-from dictionary.com


neither my apt or my food prevent me from concentrating on my purpose

[SimonaRich]

You mistake distractions for necessities.

[esmas]

Your trying to hard. If you think eating food or living under a roof is a distraction than you shouldn't be on a computer wasting your time thinking of futile exaggerations of what Personal Development is all about.

[million]

Originally Posted by esmas

Your trying to hard. If you think eating food or living under a roof is a distraction than you shouldn't be on a computer wasting your time thinking of futile exaggerations of what Personal Development is all about.

LOL! +1

[dwixi]

[QUOTE=esmas;292494]Your trying to hard. If you think eating food or living under a roof is a distraction than you shouldn't be on a computer wasting your time thinking of futile exaggerations of what Personal Development is all about.[/QUOTE

Being on the computer is a distraction from the fact that there are other ways to help people. The computer is a perfectly good way though .

[pjhaggerty]

in the sense of taking your attention away from fulfilling your life purpose, yes the desire for food and water are distractions. I believe you can reference maslov's hierarchy of needs, where food and water are on the bottom, and that until those needs are satisfied, you cannot pursure needs higher on the chain, like a life purpose. however, these distractions ultimately help you fulfill your life purpose because they help you maintain your physical body, which is necessary to do work in the physical world. therefore, they can be differentiated from other distractions which do not help you achieve your life purpose.

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by pjhaggerty

in the sense of taking your attention away from fulfilling your life purpose, yes the desire for food and water are distractions. I believe you can reference maslov's hierarchy of needs, where food and water are on the bottom, and that until those needs are satisfied, you cannot pursure needs higher on the chain, like a life purpose. however, these distractions ultimately help you fulfill your life purpose because they help you maintain your physical body, which is necessary to do work in the physical world. therefore, they can be differentiated from other distractions which do not help you achieve your life purpose.

but the original post did not refer to food and shelter in this way