Follow Detox (Who Ranks in the SEO of Your Memory?)

September 21, 2021 — Following people is as easy as clicking a button, but how many of them actually inspire you?

When I first got on Instagram in 2014, I had no idea who to follow, so I just started following everyone.

Illustrators, writers, designers, web developers, painters, life coaches, business gurus, celebrities….

It was super inspiring at first, but pretty soon I started to feel lost, scrolling through hundreds of posts from people who were all more creative and successful than me.

But the problem wasn’t jealousy.

I was following so many people, my feed had no focus — and it was pulling me in five hundred different directions.

Hack: Follow Detox

Over the years, I gradually followed fewer people as my creative tastes improved, but one day I got depressed and unfollowed EVERYONE on Instagram.

The next morning, I thought: “This is a nightmare!! I’ll never remember all the people I was following!”

But as I slowly rebuilt my feed over the next few weeks, I realized what I had done was actually GENIUS.

Out of five hundred accounts, I ended up with twenty or so that really inspired me — and it changed my feed from a frat party full of randoms to an art exhibit with one clear theme.

Who ranks in the search results of YOUR memory?

p.s. You can find this article on fthelines.com, along with other stories about #creativity, #minimalism, and #barefoot. Thanks for reading! (: 🖖
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