Perhaps just to shatter the illusion that one will instantly become an enlightened productive person, this is what I did when I got rid of screens and books[^]:

  * Sat around philosophising about what to do with my life
  * Walked around philosophising about what to do with my life
  * Walked around discovering abandoned places in the city
  * Played instruments (which I already did when I had screens)

That's about it. It's not a bad way to live, but I didn't get any great projects done, or create anything, or build anything.

Instead, I've made the most progress in life by setting myself up with social environments that force me to get things done. Joining bands and sketch comedy groups has essentially peer pressured me into writing and producing a shitload of songs and screenplays. I've played more times live than I can count.

I achieved not through ridding myself of the drug of the internet, but by supplementing it with the drug of social belonging.

Hypothetically, most of our motivation for creating or building things comes from wanting to be valuable to our tribe. If we have weak social ties, or our tribe doesn't really value what we want to do, then motivation will be very difficult to find. (I think some people are exceptions to this, where they create endlessly in their splendid isolation, but it may be worth being honest and asking whether you are one of these exceptions, or whether you fit the rule like most of us.)

[^]: Failing to get rid of books meant I just sat around reading books all day