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 downstreamer rated 3 months ago- '"I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute distraction . . . I'm not certain what the effect on the world will be. But psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide the most human satisfaction." The psychologists are...
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 JustinSimonsen rated 2 months ago- Smart enough to know that I HATE POP-UPS.
- intotheplanet rated 3 months ago
- the age of ADD is upon us. i have never thought this 'disorder' was an inherent or inherited problem, but an environmental one. we surround ourselves with a cacophony of noise, news, entertainment, and work.
as a result- our children suffer, our relationships with others suffer, and our work suffers. people cannot write well, paint well, spell, keep up an intelligent conversation, or complete a project.
- downstreamer rated 3 months ago
- '"I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute distraction . . . I'm not certain what the effect on the world will be. But psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide the most human satisfaction." The psychologists are right. McKibben describes himself as "loving novelty" and yet "craving depth", the contemporary predicament in a nutshell.'
Well, fellow bloggers, is this ironic or what? Get off your ass, go outside, and engage in some serious contemplation of splendor in the grass. It'll do you good!
- ZebuZebuZebu rated 3 months ago
- I think social networking is silly, that's why I use stumbleupon. I was going to say something else but I think I'm better off pressing that button that magically makes a new page appear.
- geojim56 rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate."
- KonaCruiser rated 3 months ago
- Isn't it ironic that just as soon as you have read this page (if yo even do) you will be clicking off somwewhere else to be distracted...
- ToneLeMoan rated 3 months ago
- Excellent article on modern distraction, which I made a superhuman effort to read all the way through :P So yes KonaCruiser clicking something else to be distracted by once you've finished reading is fine. But I think wanting to read it and not managing to finish it because of the lure of another distracting piece of information would have been a big personal defeat and of course extremely ironic :)
- maing rated 3 months ago
- The opposite of attention is distraction, an unnatural condition and one that, as Meyer discovered in 1995, kills. Now he is convinced that chronic, long-term distraction is as dangerous as cigarette smoking. In particular, there is the great myth of multitasking.No human being, he says, can effectively write an e-mail and speak on the telephone.
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