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What is Happiness?

Lifehacker blogged about an experiment: Reduce Screen Time with 52 Nights Unplugged [Distractions] ”Writer and self-described internet addict Ariel Meadow Stallings wants to be “more present in the present,” and for her that means reducing the amount of time she spends in front of the computer/TV/phone screen. To do just that, she’s started a new, year-long project called 52 Nights Unplugged. The rule is simple: once a week, for one night, she doesn’t do anything involving a screen. “

What really interested me about this project was the application of the project, and what kind of results one might experience while trying to implement it.  Its so easy to go online for “just a second” or kill 15 minutes after dinner with a basketball game on tv.  But what if you couldn’t fill your time with these distractions?

 What if you had to get creative?

 I wondered what one might be able to accomplish if they just devoted one night a week to that project that has been put off again and again.

 So, I decided to take the dive.  For one year I am going to set aside one night a week and follow along with her experiment and see how it effects me personally.