Silence

Something that I truly believe is that most people can't be in silence. We try to consume as much content as possible to stay distracted, to avoid thinking. In this 7-day challenge I'll don't consume anything that distracts myself, that means that the rules are:

January 10, 2026
Day 1 — The Nightmare Begins

02:45

Yeah, Ik that's kind of late.

I was coding the website so everything is good enough to start doing all of this. I'm kind of excited to start a website and document my progress :)

With that said, this is going to be a really hard challenge for me. I always listen to something to avoid being in silence, and that leads to hours and hours of watching YouTube, listening to music, scrolling through social media etc.

It's not bad by itself since these are forms of entertainment, the problem starts when they begin to have a negative impact on your life, and that's my case.

I can’t concentrate on anything, and I always need background noise for everything. That's why I decided to start this challenge.

23:46

Update!

To be honest, this first day was very easy. I was busy working on a personal project, studying for a scholarship, and playing video games with my friends (today is saturday and I had plans with them).

One thing I’d like to mention is that time went extremely slowly today, multiple times I thought it was pretty late and when I checked the time I noticed it was actually still very early

Sorry for the lack of details and for the very short explanation of how day one went, I’ll include more details throughout the rest of this challenge!

January 11, 2026
Day 2 — (Thinking for a good name)

12:53

Hey! For the moment I’ve been working on a personal project and talking with some friends, I’ve started to notice that the more time passes, the harder the challenge becomes

For me one of the hardest moments when not using social media is while I’m eating, I always saw a lot of memes about “eating without watching YouTube” and I used to laugh at them because I always did the same (eating while watching YouTube) and not doing it has been a challenge for me

For the moment I don’t have much else to say. Is it hard? Yes, Has it been extremely difficult? Not exactly (at least for now). For working and studying I use a 50/10 Pomodoro, during those 10min breaks I either go to the bathroom, get up from my chair and walk a little, or just check some stuff on my PC