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How to manage digital distractions
The impact of technology on mental health
The importance of setting boundaries
There are many people self-isolating due to the escalating pandemic, with their phones being the essential link to the outside world. Technology becomes a double-edged sword, connecting and isolating us at the same time, leading to anxiety-related disorders, and extremely short attention spans.
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Technology, just like the mind, is a very good slave, but a bad master. The technologies by itself are life-giving and useful, but if we are spending the whole day on Twitter, fighting with whoever we don’t agree with, we are ruining our psychological health.
We tend to spiral into the news black hole for hours, but just looking at the front page of the New York Times or Washington Post once or twice a day should be enough.
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Technology is neutral by itself, and how we use that tool matters.
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Spending time alone with your thoughts is extremely crucial, but is increasingly difficult. When you sit with yourself and understand your thought stream you structure your experiences and create a ‘bridge’ of your life and where you want to go.
Without spending solitary time with ourselves we are just adrift with where pop culture, media, and the attention economy takes us.
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One of the hidden dangers of technology is how your complex thoughts can be distilled and shortened into an emoji (like a heart or a thumbs up).
Most people, especially youngsters, are not being articulate with their feelings when they have readymade shortcuts to convey their emotions.
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There is a misguided notion that speed and efficiency are inherently better. For a few things, fast is fine (like a faster dish cleaner). Being exposed to information in a faster way isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Example: Replying to emails faster and quicker isn’t really optimizing the work, and only increases the pseudo-work in the long run.
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