Are you letting the internet and social media make you stupid?
People seem to be more and more distracted.
Instant information has made us impatient and therefore we concentrate less and do not put the time into readings and study me must do to become wise and well informed.
What can you do to change this?
Get off social media?
Dedicate more time to leisurely reading?
Robin Waldun offers some excellent answers.
Video from Robin Waldun
How Information Makes You Stupid - And What To Do About It
"A video essay on information, mass media and cultivating attention in the 21st century." from video introduction
How To Cultivate Attention In Our Distracted World
"The Missing Link That Makes Us Human
Thoreau’s Meditations
If you were a farmer from 1845 to 1847 in Concord, you might notice an eccentric and ragged man wandering the land around a pond. This man was Henry David Thoreau, and in 1845 he ran away from all the noise in Massachusetts and isolated himself in a little cabin overlooking Walden Pond. One day, a local passed by Thoreau’s cabin on his way to work and saw Thoreau overlooking the water. On his way home that night, he noticed that Thoreau was still in the same spot, pondering the same sight.
It’s hard to imagine doing that nowadays. With our phones blowing up around the clock, we have voluntarily brought all the noise and distractions into the comfort of our homes. There are no safe zones for us to ponder anything for a long time, and if we see someone looking out of the window for hours on end, we might think that they’re high and try to shake them out of it..." from the article: How To Cultivate Attention In Our Distracted World
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