{"id":2000855,"date":"2023-08-15T03:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-beat-leftist-groupthink-put-down-your-phone-and-pick-up-a-hobby\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:34:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:34:57","slug":"to-beat-leftist-groupthink-put-down-your-phone-and-pick-up-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-beat-leftist-groupthink-put-down-your-phone-and-pick-up-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Break free from leftist groupthink, ditch your phone, embrace a hobby."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fto-beat-leftist-groupthink-put-down-your-phone-and-pick-up-a-hobby%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2000855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Three years ago, I bought a rundown dump of an \u2063old hunting camp and have been fixing it up ever since. This \u200bprocess has involved,\u200d among countless\u200d other (invariably \u2064stinky) tasks, hauling out a musty \u200cAstroTurf \u201carea rug\u201d and skim-coating the swirly, 1970s plaster walls, stained a tawny \u200ccolor by decades of cigarette smoke. When I took\u2064 possession of the \u200bproperty, ridding the thing \u2062of its tobacco-juiced floors and plastic-everything bathroom couldn\u2019t\u200b happen \u2064soon enough. Now\u200c though, \u2062as the project nears completion, I\u2019m disappointed. I\u2019ve found I <em>crave<\/em> chores.<\/p>\n<p>I know I\u2019m \u2063not alone. When I wrote a piece last summer about how <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/life\/mowing-lawn-underrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mowing the lawn is underrated<\/a>, I received many messages in praise of puttering. In writing my forthcoming book, <a href=\"https:\/\/sophiainstitute.com\/product\/how-to-woke-proof-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Woke-Proof Your Life<\/em><\/a>, I found plenty of \u2063research affirming that the impulse my fellow eager honey-doers and I have in \u200bwanting\u2063 to complete mundane tasks and\u2064 pursue passion projects is healthy and natural. It\u2019s also my experience that\u2064 the\u200b more our lives have become automated, online, \u200dand inundated\u200d with woke messaging and \u201cnews\u201d manufactured to arouse fear and division, the \u200bmore we\u2062 crave\u200d chores and hobbies \u2014 and the more \u2063we need them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-163213662\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d74ec283ee53f160608fb9cc2e86b66a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d74ec283ee53f160608fb9cc2e86b66a\"><\/div>\n<p>Wokeness, for all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/equality-not-elitism\/stop-making-woke-more-complicated-than-it-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">professed confusion \u2062surrounding \u200cits definition<\/a>, is nothing new. Nor is it a complicated \u200dconcept. Wokeness is simply radical, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-suspended-from-education-program-for-saying-a-man-is-a-man-a-woman-is-a-woman\/\" title=\"Student Suspended From Education Program For Saying, \u2018A Man Is A Man, A Woman Is A Woman\u2019\">left-wing ideology<\/a> using updated terminology. It\u2019s just political correctness on steroids, and it seems screen time is the \u201cjuice\u201d most responsible for growing the chaotic machine. It appears the reason wokeness has gained such traction in the \u2063past couple of years is not because everyone in America has suddenly become \u201cwoke,\u201d but because the rhetoric \u2063is so easy to\u2062 disseminate online through Big Tech platforms largely owned by powerful, wealthy leftists determined to further the woke movement and censor dissent. Covid, too, and its consequential smartphone overuse, dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7825859\/#:~:text=Excessive%20use%20of%20smartphones%20can,the%20COVID%20period%20%5B9%5D.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ca hidden crisis\u201d<\/a> of the pandemic, accelerated the speed and intensity of wokeness.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if you had a\u2063 woke thought or did a woke thing and didn\u2019t post about it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>\u200c or run to tell your story to CNN, did it really happen?\u2063 As corporate and \u2062social\u2062 media increasingly influence our world, woke ideas breed and fester and bring about the rotten fruit \u2014 \u200dskyrocketing anxiety, depression, addiction,\u200d etc. \u2014 we see destroying our society.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Canceling Wokeness with Chores and Hobbies<\/h2>\n<p>The good news is we can cancel wokeness before it cancels \u2014 and breaks \u2014 us. Completing\u200b chores and fostering healthy hobbies are vital to a thriving society, and the failure to do so has left people \u200bwith a lot of free\u200b time on their handheld \u2063devices and many once-robust communities floundering. By\u2062 contrast, spending time away \u2063from the fearmongering, sensationalized \u200bnews \u2063cycle and artificial online outrage by igniting one\u2019s senses and \u201cturning \u2062on\u201d one\u2019s talents, so to speak, is key to\u200c mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health.<\/p>\n<p>Chores and hobbies allow us the double benefit of escaping woke influences while also boosting our self-sufficiency \u2014 a concept leftist, big government masterminds <em>loathe<\/em>. Self-sufficiency means not being subject to the ideological dictums and constant threat of cancellation at the hands of the woke \u2063judge and jury. \u2062Self-sufficiency also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-beat-leftist-groupthink-put-down-your-phone-and-pick-up-a-hobby\/\" title=\"Break free from leftist groupthink, ditch your phone, embrace a hobby.\">involves incorporating health-giving pastimes<\/a> and satisfying skills into your life that can lead to alternative career paths, side hustles, \u200cand \u2064closet industries that can move you \u200cout from under the man\u2019s thumb and insulate you from monetary \u200bcoercion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c586a59b932b831091831a6916371515 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c586a59b932b831091831a6916371515\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Studies Support \u2064Hobbies<\/h2>\n<p>What\u2019s more, self-sufficiency also makes us better equipped to handle woke madness. The Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association, reporting on the link between self-sufficiency and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/months-after-closing-beaches-newsom-smugly-suggests-people-hit-the-sand-for-their-mental-health\/\" title=\"Months After Closing Beaches, Newsom Smugly Suggests People Hit the Sand for Their Mental Health\">mental health<\/a>, found that \u201ca deep-rooted sense of \u2063inner completeness and stability\u201d supplies people with an \u201cinner sense of well-being [that] equips\u200b them to be more resilient \u2063to negative life events.\u201d In fact, such an attitude \u2062explains in part why conservatives are healthier than leftists. Psychology Today reported on a study that found \u201cpeople with conservative political \u2064attitudes tend to have better health than their liberal counterparts because the former place greater value on personal responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virtually any avocation\u200c that stimulates the mind and safeguards the soul from groupthink contagion, even if it\u2019s \u200cmostly just\u2063 for fun,\u200b is worthwhile. The Harvard \u200bBusiness Review reported in 2021 on a study suggesting \u201cpeople who take part \u2064in leisure activities have fewer negative emotions and are less stressed. The study even found that\u200b our heart rates are literally lower when \u200bwe engage in our hobbies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psychology Today also reminded us in 2019 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/prescriptions-life\/201906\/working-your-hands-does-wonders-your-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cWorking with Your Hands \u2063Does Wonders for Your Brain<\/a>: Activities that use your hands relieve stress\u200d and help you solve problems. Using our hands may actually be \u200bkey to maintaining a\u2063 healthy mood, and the lack of this type of activity may contribute to feelings of irritability, apathy and depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Painting, Gardening, or Sweeping Chimneys<\/h2>\n<p>My latest favorite hobby is getting lost \u200cin painting the (un-swirled) walls of \u2062the hunting camp where there\u2019s\u200d limited cellphone service\u2062 and \u200dmy\u200d mind is freed to wander, wonder, \u2064and breathe, in a sense. A chimneysweep once told me \u2064he loved \u2063his work because \u2062it\u2019s the perfect combination of \u201cbeing \u2063intellectual and leaving me \u2062physically exhausted and\u200b a little dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1a4118fc0aa04570e1661b0fa69fdb55 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1a4118fc0aa04570e1661b0fa69fdb55\"><\/div>\n<p>Following the \u200dchimneysweep model, I\u2019m convinced that if\u2064 everyone in America were\u200b involved in gardening, wokeness would go <em>poof<\/em>! We\u2019d have fewer mentally ill and obese people, and time spent in nature, which reduces stress in itself, means less time spent absorbing and supporting destructive woke causes.<\/p>\n<p>Yale University reported in 2020 on a study that\u2062 found: \u201cPeople who spent two hours a week in green spaces \u2014 local parks or other natural environments, either \u2064all at once or spaced over several visits \u2014 \u2063were substantially more likely to report \u2062good health and psychological well-being than those who don\u2019t. \u2062The effects were robust, cutting across different occupations, ethnic groups, people from \u2062rich and poor areas, and people with \u2062chronic illnesses \u2062and disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If anyone\u2019s looking for a chore or a pastime that stifles woke \u2064poisons, excites\u200c the senses (just enough), lowers stress, and makes the world a nicer \u200cplace, grab your paintbrush and meet me at camp.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cc1961e5fec4b4679b393d7e86ad70a5 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-cc1961e5fec4b4679b393d7e86ad70a5\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, I purchased a dilapidated hunting camp and have been renovating it nonstop. The tasks have been endless, including removing a smelly AstroTurf rug and refinishing the discolored 1970s plaster walls tainted by years of cigarette smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":2000856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}