Navigating my love-hate of social media (Part 4)
Worthy already: redefining measures of success
Let’s talk about metrics and how they keep us subservient on social media.
In case you are just tuning into this essay series, here is where we started with the 22-day Instagram challenge. Today’s essay goes deep into insight number 3 below, about sovereignty and measures of success:
3. Staying sovereign on socials means unlearning sensitivity to imposed metrics – and stubbornly measuring success on my own terms
4. Being available to serve requires visibility and vulnerability, which makes my ego into an offering on the altar of collective transformation
5. Using socials for experimentation and expression (not perfectionism and performance) requires safety sourced from within
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Staying sovereign on socials means unlearning sensitivity to imposed metrics – and stubbornly measuring success on my own terms
It’s the wild, wild world of social media, beyond the long arm of the law, where dealers are constantly turning addicts turning dealers in a recursive race to the bottom. This is where we voluntarily check ourselves into a psych ward where we self-administer digital anesthesia. Or is it digital amnesia?
Metrics are the strings that the puppet-master pulls to get us to do the desired dance. If you want to be a free being, while being online, it means retraining your brain to not respond to metrics.