Tom Brainerd’s Reviews > The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World > Status Update

The first part of this book is interesting, if for no other reason than the whole 'broken watch' thing.

Now that I am in the second part of the book, it is much more useful, descriptions of the effects of technology and its use on distraction.

"A major premise of this book is that our Distracted Minds are generated by a head-on collision between our high-level goals and our intrinsic cognitive control limitations; this conflict generates goal interference that negatively impacts quality of life."

What he said...I guess.

"From an experiential viewpoint, the neural process of suppression can be thought of as the act of ignoring, which is a far more important action than many people realize. Decades of research have shown that while focusing on relevant information is, of course critical to accomplishing our goals, ignoring irrelevant information is just as important."