Status Updates From Kadonnut keskittymiskyky

"The study found that 'technological distraction'—just getting emails and calls—caused a drop in the workers' IQ by an average of ten points.... in the short term, that's twice the knock to your IQ that you get when you smoke cannabis. So this suggests, in terms of being able to get your work done, you'd be better off getting stoned at your desk than checking your texts and Facebook messages a lot." (p. 39)

Ch. 5
Mind wandering or day dreaming is good for you. Letting your mind breathe without podcast or music. No specific focus just drifting from thought to thought.
Deep focus is good and mind wandering is good both are different.

So you’re telling me some of the people who built social media algorithms 1. regret what they’ve created because they don’t fully understand it and it’s gotten out of control and 2. don’t let their own children use it because they know how horrible it is for their attention spans, ability to think for themselves, etc. Awesome. 🫥

Ch. 4
Literacy and complex thinking is falling. People don’t read enough literary fiction. We understand more, reading on paper than on screen. Other mediums and how u get information also changes the way you perceive that info and the world. Twitter, Facebook, instagram fuels that the world is shallow and simple. Books are complex. Reading Fiction especially helps build empathy. Children need storybooks and movies

Până acum, am descoperit atât lucruri noi, cât și informații pe care le știam deja. Mă intrigă și mă întristează ceea ce este prezentat în carte, iar până acum nu am găsit prea multe despre posibilele soluții sau moduri de a face față situațiilor descrise. Cred că, dacă toți părinții ar citi această carte ar fi un pas important spre conștientizarea realităților cu care se confruntă tinerii și spre schimbarea lucruril