MINUTES of a MONDAY #133
A bit of this and that to get your week off to a flyer
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BRAIN FOOD: An Information Deluge
"Most discussion about the societal impacts of digital media focuses on the rise of smartphones and social media. But the change in human capacity for focused thought coincides with something more fundamental: a shift in our relationship with information.
We have moved from finite web pages to infinite, constantly refreshed feeds and a constant barrage of notifications. We no longer spend as much time actively browsing the web and interacting with people we know but instead are presented with a torrent of content. This represents a move from self-directed behaviour to passive consumption and constant context-switching.
Research finds that active, intentional use of digital technologies is often benign or even beneficial. Whereas the behaviours that have taken off in recent years have been shown to affect everything from our ability to process verbal information, to attention, working memory and self-regulation.
The good news is that underlying human intellectual capacity is surely undimmed. But outcomes are a function of both potential and execution. For too many of us the digital environment is hampering the latter."
John Burn-Murdoch on a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning
SOUL FOOD:
“Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.”
Paulo Coelho
LOL:
A rapid fire one from the world’s most boring comedian, Henning Nielsen:
APPENDIX:
“Most of us spend a lot of time censoring everything that we see and hear. Does it fit with our world picture? And if it doesn’t, how can we shut it out, how can we ignore it, how can we challenge it? We are continually threatened in life, it’s true. But once you are alone with a book, and it’s also true with a picture or with music, all those defenses drop and you can enter into a quite different space where you will learn to think differently about yourself.”
A.O.B.
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Slán agus beannacht - Niall