At Quiet Social Club, we believe that as a hyper-connected society, we need a new approach to living and working well. Technology can be an amazing tool and our mission is to empower you with the knowledge and techniques to leverage the best of technology, without compromising on your quality of life, work and social relationships!

Digital Wellness Challenge

Welcome to the QSC

Challenge Overview

The 10-Day Digital Wellness Challenge offers you an introduction to different digital wellbeing practices, packaged into little activities that you can explore every day. Each day for the duration of the challenge, you'll receive from us: a focused theme, a short exercise, and insights to deepen your understanding of the topic. 

  • We'll take a look at your current digital habits to pinpoint areas for improvement. We'll also introduce tools and techniques to effectively monitor and track your digital usage, setting the stage for meaningful change.

  • In a world of distractions, understanding your “why” is becoming increasingly important, serving as a compass and guide for where to place your time and attention. Today is about defining clear, personal intentions and setting achievable goals to align your digital habits with your values and goals.

  • Discover the art and science of setting healthy digital boundaries in a hybrid world.. We'll cover strategies to help you establish limits that protect your time, focus, and wellbeing in a hyper-connected world

  • Focus on enriching your real-world relationships amidst the digital noise. Today's activities are designed to strengthen personal connections, fostering deeper and more meaningful interactions.

  • Learn to master your cognitive resources in the face of digital distractions. We'll explore techniques to manage your attention and maintain psychological balance, enhancing mental clarity and focus.

  • Understand how your digital habits influence your sleep and overall health. We'll dive into strategies for digital wellbeing that promote restful sleep and a healthier lifestyle.

  • Today's focus is on mindful engagement with technology, cultivating awareness and intentionality in your digital interactions.

  • Boost your productivity at work by reducing digital interruptions. We'll explore tactics to minimize distractions and enhance your focus, leading to more efficient and effective work habits.

  • Day 9 is all about appreciating the power of stepping away from screens and enjoying the rejuvenating effects of nature and digital unplugging.

  • We'll consolidate the insights and habits you've developed over the challenge and strategize on how to integrate and sustain them in your everyday life.

We’re not the first generation to worry about the impact of new media on our human nature. Already the ancient Greeks were concerned about the impact that writing might have on memory, creativity and critical thinking.

Today, we live in a world that exposes us to more information in one day than our ancestors were in their entire lifetime - much more information than our brain can process. On top of that, we are engaging with platforms and applications that are designed to make us go and stay online, consuming more information at all times of the day, 24/7.

In a world that is constantly online and can easily lead to distraction, information overload and digital overwhelm, we need a strategy: Digital Wellbeing promotes the many forms of wellbeing, be they mental, physical, occupational or social. This is not about abstinence, but about finding the right balance that works for you! 

This is not about deleting your social media accounts, but about finding a balance with your tech that supports the things most meaningful and important to you. 

Why Digital Wellbeing?

The Science

An increasing number of studies show the impact of our connected lives on our wellbeing, productivity, relationships and cognitive health.

Studies show that our digital devices impact the quality of our connection to others. They affect the amount of empathy we feel for others, and how present we feel for them in conversation.

Relationships

While important forms of communication, digital distractions from email and social media impact our ability to focus. Studies show it can take up to 23 minutes to refocus from interruptions.

Productivity

Cognitive and information overload can leave you feeling stressed, overwhelmed and anxious. Managing digital interactions and the media outlets and accounts you follow is key.

Stress

The average smartphone user spends 4.5 hours on their phone. Much of the time spent on our digital devices is habitual and unconscious, feeding into time we could be spending otherwise.

Time

Bluelight emitted from screens delays the release of melatonin, an important sleep hormone, and thus interferes with your circadian rhythm. Sleep, however, is one of the most important factors for health.

Sleep

Cognitive health

Distraction, left unchecked, can easily become a habit, reinforcing patterns at a cellular level. This can impact a series of cognitive processes, among them memory, problem solving and creative thinking. 

Today, we can be plugged in surfing, scrolling and consuming 24/7: it is therefore up to us to create times to unplug and open a space to practise calm and mindfulness, to rest fully and just be.

Meta-Awareness

Our working memory (short term memory) can hold limited information points. When this is exceeded, our ability to retain information and draw conclusions for the long-run is impacted. 

Memory

Creative thinking requires time: to think, process, assimilate and synthesize information. Creativity is driven by memory which is affected by distractions, cognitive and information overload. 

Creativity