I Was So Right About Distraction in Now You See it: Darn it all! | HASTAC - 1 views
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I aruge that we are always multitasking and sometimes we do it more adeptly than others and it is incumbent on us to take our own internal inventory and decide what we are doing well and what we are not
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what makes you distracted is that you are doing too many non-automatic, non-reflexive things at once.
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Is it the technology or the stream of non-stop decision-making that doesn't seem to stick to a 9-5 workday but follows you home from the office, at night, on weekends, on summer vacation?
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I advocate avoiding distraction but going deep, introspective, and finding out what exactly is freaking you out.
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heartache (emotional overload) and hearburn (physical ailments) are far more distracting than email . . . and they make it harder to learn new technologies too.
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The same, by the way, is also true when your worklife depends on technology and the technology changes.
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unlearning, in fact, makes us pay attention to the world in a new way. George Lakoff says it is useful to become "reflective about our reflexes."
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I am hoping that the result of this tedious, difficult, uneven, sometimes triumphant, sometime despairing transition time will be a fresh new way of looking at the world, now that so much of the world I took for granted, so many of the collaborations and processes and bureaucracies and patterns and expertise is so vividly transparent.
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" I am hoping that the result of this tedious, difficult, uneven, sometimes triumphant, sometime despairing transition time will be a fresh new way of looking at the world, now that so much of the world I took for granted, so many of the collaborations and processes and bureaucracies and patterns and expertise is so vividly transparent."