The pursuit of excellence involves fighting off the distractions and evils. Here are some of the major ones:
- Cheap dopamine: Smart-phone addiction, and porn & social media addiction
- Addictive processed foods including sugar & caffeine and drugs
- Promiscuity, lack of empathy, and moral decay of minds
- Anxiety, depression, hyper active mental states, reduced attention spans and over-consumption of information
- Lack of quality sleep
- Distance from nature and pollution (air, water, sound, and light)
- Depleted social life and loneliness
- Polarisation based on ideologies and subsequent lack of intellectual depth
- Shallowness in art & music and lack of depth in other forms of entertainment
- Greed for more resources and not knowing when they’re enough; economic disparity