I take this as an argument for staying off the internet as much as possible. Avoid the temptation to continually see what everyone else is doing and give yourself space to think.
You will inevitably dedicate thoughts to whatever is placed in front of you. The only relevant trick is to be in control of what is placed there. Let the canvas be an overly familiar place and sustenance be an endlessly repeated ritual. Everything must be as boring as possible.
I had a hilarious conversation one time with a wealthy guy who owns a sizable plot of land with an enormous house. He lives in a single room in the basement. The rest of the decor is only there to keep people away. It started out as a place to occasionally smoke weed back when it was a crime in the US. It gradually turned into a place to think.
I suppose it is a comical instance of things having to get worse before one takes action. The weed really helped show who people are.
It takes a lot to keep society running, most of it is careful repetition. Many will end up thinking this is all there is and change is a terrible thing by definition. I'm not at all convinced they are wrong about it. All other animal species just live and do their familiar thing. They are finely calibrated for it.
Then one day someone just had to bang rocks together and make fire. Perhaps it was all down hill from there. Whatever it is we are doing today is trying to get back up the hill. It is not just that each answer we find raises many new questions. It is that every solution we find creates many new problems.
And so we end up scavenging the world looking for something that was always inside our heads.
edit: I forgot the emotional part!
Emotions are our encyclopedia build over hundreds of millions of years. There is no correct emotional state to think, they are all good. Think deep why you feel the way you do in the historic context. Why was this feeling hard coded millions of years ago?
