2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
An “irreplaceable” smart assistant
Technology advances so quickly that people can feel lost without having time to adapt to these changes.
Our day starts with checking the phone. 70% of people take a gadget within the first 5 minutes after sleep. The hand itself reaches for the phone to look through the news, check social networks. At work, we watch emails and online chats. Arriving home, we watch funny videos, read e-books, shop in online stores. We are all day in the company of our phone, and it is already difficult for us to be with us without gadgets.
Obviously, we have become part of such an existence … We live in an era of digital addiction!
The new active information environment has a rather destructive effect on our consciousness.
We communicate less and less with other people, with loved ones, we replace this communication with social networks and views of digital portals of various content. Because of this, we lose the experience of communication in real life, do not perceive the problems of other people, detachment and misunderstanding appear.
Of course, our smart assistant is very valuable and necessary for us, but along with the fabulous possibilities, we carry in our pocket a list of side effects in the form of impaired communication and attention, depression and anxiety, problems with sleep and performance, headaches and even poor posture
In fact, we really began to think less, we spend a lot of time consuming information, but thinking and consuming information are completely different things. The endless flow of information from the gadget also constantly puts a person in front of a choice: more difficult or simpler? You can read a long article, or you can flip through the feed in search of funny pictures. The brain is likely to choose the latter. Our brain wants simple and effortless. No one is to blame, it is evolution that taught us how to save resources. So the choice "simpler" is obvious, and everything that is "more difficult" is postponed until later, which may not come.
As the number of tasks grows, the brain has to choose more and more carefully where to spend precious energy. To reduce costs, he is simply lazy to do what our smart assistant can handle.
The brain strives for simplicity and unpretentiousness, for very fast perception of images.
Brain research suggests that when information is consumed constantly, the part of the brain associated with thinking falls asleep (or does not even develop as a person grows up)
A decrease in brain performance leads to the fact that a person loses the ability to see the future, to think about what to do. The ability to analyze and evaluate their failures is lost. People lose the ability to adjust to life and achieve success.
Modern digital technologies undeniably simplify our lives. Although, for the most part, they simplify the work of our brain. The more things smart assistants do for us, the less we train both our body and the brain, we are less in contact with the natural external environment, we are less in harmony with our natural pace.
Information addiction is a disease that engulfs the whole world
It is difficult to be treated for this disease, but it is possible
How not to lose efficiency and a sense of happiness under the flow of information
An interesting clarification: in European countries, some cafes offer discounts to customers who do not use their phones while visiting. In this way, the value of live communication is emphasized.
Try creating a digital hunger strike, do you think it's easy? And you try …
1. Reconfigure and sort all your digital channels. Uninstall unnecessary apps on your phone. Leave only those applications and channels that will allow you to read the news deliberately.
2. Learn self-organization and focus. One of the best ways to keep up with everything is to be able to concentrate on the task at hand and not be distracted. Learn to answer calls and messages only when you're done.
3. Establish a regularity for digital cleansing. Make it a rule to spend certain time with your family without a phone. At this time, you need to draw up a clear plan for what you will do. Leave the gadget at home from time to time.
4. Try to prevent yourself from using gadgets for an hour after sleep and an hour before sleep.
5. After periodically abandoning gadgets, you will want to catch up. Dose information, be distracted by books, or compromise with an e-book.
6. Make a choice in favor of personal communication. With all the convenience and time saving, the phone, skype cannot charge you with energy, only through personal eye-to-eye communication can you establish a trusting contact and influence the interlocutor.
7. Set goals and strive to achieve them. Set goals with clear timelines for achieving. This will help you spend more time doing the really important things.
8. There is such a rule - a habit is formed in 21 days. Try to shape your new 21 Day Digital Detox. For example, falling asleep for 21 days without gadgets, or going to lunch with colleagues without a phone for 21 days, you will see how this becomes a good skill.
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