We need to give our minds more room to think. And that means putting some distance between ourselves and our phones.
for those willing to try this tech detox here is a small guide that i found.
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-27229/i-went-on-an-8week-smartphone-detox-heres-what-i-learned.html
We need to give our minds more room to think. And that means putting some distance between ourselves and our phones.
much like my phone detox statement before it is important to me to connect with the real world from time to time instead of staying plugged in at all hours of the day. ways that i recenter my self are by going fishing or hiking or having a simple conversation with friends with no technology involved.
hat insight sheds light on society’s current gullibility crisis, in which people are all too quick to credit lies and half-truths spread through social media. If your phone has sapped your powers of discernment, you’ll believe anything it tells you.
I believe that people have be come more susceptible to half truths and lies due to the internet due to reading things at face value and not fact checking their information.
ow that our phones have made it so easy to gather information online, our brains are likely off-loading even more of the work of remembering to technology.
i have mixed feelings about this, in one way it is an ease of the mind but in another it could be making us less intelligent by not retaining as much knowledge.
No wonder we can’t take our minds off it.
with the smart phone we no longer have to wonder about questions instead we google them instantly and find the answer we desire.
it acts as what Dr. Ward calls a “supernormal stimulus,” one that can “hijack” attention whenever it is part of our surroundings — and it is always part of our surroundings.
constantly having you phone attached to your hip only amplifies this hijacked feeling. i know many people that have done phone "detoxes" where they step away from their phones for hours or days at a time to better connect with the people around them, an idea i have yet to try but want to.
Because smartphones serve as constant reminders of all the friends we could be chatting with electronically, they pull at our minds when we’re talking with people in person, leaving our conversations shallower and less satisfying.
there is nothing worse than going out to dinner with friends and having half of them be on their phones. it limits social-ability and pushes away conversation.
Imagine combining a mailbox, a newspaper, a TV, a radio, a photo album, a public library and a boisterous party attended by everyone you know, and then compressing them all into a single, small, radiant object. That is what a smartphone represents to us.
i have heard many refer to it as a pocket computer allowing you to access the entire world from a 3x6 item in your pocket.
people who had their phones in view, albeit turned off, during two demanding tests of attention and cognition made significantly more errors than did a control group whose phones remained out of sight.
the sheer presence of your phone decreases your mental ability... interesting fact.
ust suppressing the desire to check our phone, which we do routinely and subconsciously throughout the day, can debilitate our thinking. The fact that most of us now habitually keep our phones “nearby and in sight,” the researchers noted, only magnifies the mental toll.
the derailing of metal though process while working by checking your phone makes my work take twice as long. that is why while i study i have started to turn it off and place it across the room.
As the phone’s proximity increased, brainpower decreased.
this is interesting how participants didn't even need o look at their phones just how close it was to their person decreases their thinking capability.
The division of attention impedes reasoning and performance.
I agree with this if I hear my phone buzz while I study or try to do homework I stop and check it halting all my progress.
So what happens to our minds when we allow a single tool such dominion over our perception and cognition?
much like the circle many teens and adults even are glued to their cellphones but how did we get so addicted in the fir place?
The two of you will be inseparable.
Perfectly said, when ever i am leaving my house if i do not have my phone i turn the car around and go get it.
Some people need to know what they are thinking in order to write it down or say it, and some people need to write or speak in order to know what they are thinking.
I fall in to the former group where i need to think through my entire plot and then write instead of writing then thinking. if I do that I have a tangled mess of words with no real meaning behind them.
How much space do we afford ourselves for private thought?
very important and eyebrow raising comment made by the author.
It had already been published. Salon took it.
possible dangers of pre writing on social media.
But could Twitter possibly be productive, beyond the basic act of publicizing what you have written and/or proving that you still exist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8OdjWJRPY
This sentence reminded me of this movie about the importance of social media to those in the world and what would happen if it ceased to exist tomorrow.
But could Twitter possibly be productive, beyond the basic act of publicizing what you have written and/or proving that you still exist?
I do think twitter could have an impact becuase i know many people who have started companies and gotten recongnized throughthier twitter output. a good example is the netflix documentary the american meme.
re all composed in a kind of psychic antechamber whose main feature is a sense of aloneness
I have experienced this when sitting down to write a paper, trying to compose the perfect blend of gripping information while keeping the main idea i focus is difficult and often feels like youre talking to your self.
That is why so many Salinger fans feel that their relationship with his books, especially to “Catcher in the Rye,” is like an intimacy shared.
With this being said i can remember the same feeling after finishing catcher in the rye and my mental connection to Holden Caufeild.
I nominate J. D. Salinger as the least likely tweeter in literary history. A tweet is, by definition, a violation of one’s privacy
Much agreed from articles i have read about the later portion of his life, he moved to a cabin an locked him self inside to write his stories.
Or perhaps you put it in a tweet, making the note public. But does the fact that it is public diminish the chances that it will grow into something sturdy and lasting?
Posting something on the internet like a thought or idea can be a powerful way to start a movement becuase millions of people can share your idea with one tap of a button.
recently tweeted a question: “If an action is not recorded on a smart phone, does it, did it, exist?”
This is an interesting point because especially with teens and young adults today instead of telling a story they will have recorded the entire event on their smart phone to play back at any point in time.
Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a greek philosopher i read a great deal about him when i looked him up.
Would they ignore it or engage and go down the rabbit hole?
This is a good point to raise would writers o the pas be proud of the articles written on the internet and twitter feeds or be in disgust?
cri de coeur
I had to look this up to give me context, heres the definition for any one else
Damn. I was hooked.
I have read books in the past like this where the story line is monotonous and plain boring until one event that shifts the whole mood of the book.
Paying deep, sustained attention is a grind if you’re not getting any payoff for your effort.
Paying such deep attention to an intricate book like this is exponentially harder while on a screen instead of ink and paper.
Five thousands years ago, humanity’s crazy adventure with writing began with us holding something small in our hands, waiting for the text to speak to us, trying to still our minds long enough to listen to the voice of another. That part, it seems, hasn’t changed.
powerful ending line to show contrast between the very first forms of writing and now the portability and accessibility of the computers we now have in our pocket.
It felt like he’d been midway through a guitar solo when someone stepped on his cord and accidentally unplugged him from his amp. I was baffled
another good literary picture by mr. Thompson
When we fold ourselves into these literary yoga poses, it’s a ritual of physicality; we are communicating to ourselves, “I am a reader.”
I enjoy the literary pictures that the author is able to construct.
When we believe that reading on a phone is equally “serious” as reading on paper, we internalize that reading just as deeply.
interesting note, very mind over matter approach to reading.
When I click on Twitter or, say, the Asphalt 6 driving game, I have a mental orientation that says “Hey! Let me entertain myself, enliven my brain, take a break, and maybe find something funny.” But when I clicked on War and Peace, I felt myself assume a kabuki seriousness: I shall now immerse myself in a Work of Art.
going back and fourth between these two very active and slowed down parts of the brain must throw off concentration levels when going back to reading.
One minute I’d be reading about the Fire of Moscow, with the invading French soldiers accidentally burning houses to the ground while trying to cook breakfast in the kitchens; the next minute Tolstoy would start rambling on for 5,000 words about how the idiotic punditry of historians “can only satisfy young children.”
The confusion of reading a book like this is enough on paper with out added outside distractions found on the internet.
In this case, though, my back-and-forth flipping between browser and phone wasn’t eroding my ability to understand the book
I feel this is a problem for all E-book readers, there is no serenity when phone dings and emails are flooding your reading experience.
“Reading the screen feels passive to me.” This is why print books aren’t dying off
I share the same problem in reading online text and media, i tend to more gloss over the reading rather than fully immerse my self in the experience compared to a book.
Phones are twitchy hives of activity, speeding us up and yanking us in all directions.
Very true statement, this is why i find it hard for many people to be able to read on Electronic devices, especially a book as long as war and peace.